Re: [PATCH] alloca.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 07.10.2013 21:58, Peng Haitao wrote:
> The function alloca() is thread safe.


Applied.

Thanks,

Michael



> Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  man3/alloca.3 | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/alloca.3 b/man3/alloca.3
> index 0d593ed..7d11c63 100644
> --- a/man3/alloca.3
> +++ b/man3/alloca.3
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
>  .\"     Various rewrites and additions (notes on longjmp() and SIGSEGV).
>  .\"     Weaken warning against use of alloca() (as per Debian bug 461100).
>  .\"
> -.TH ALLOCA 3 2013-05-12 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
> +.TH ALLOCA 3 2013-10-07 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
>  .SH NAME
>  alloca \- allocate memory that is automatically freed
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
> @@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ The
>  .BR alloca ()
>  function returns a pointer to the beginning of the allocated space.
>  If the allocation causes stack overflow, program behavior is undefined.
> +.SH ATTRIBUTES
> +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
> +The
> +.BR alloca ()
> +function is thread-safe.
>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>  This function is not in POSIX.1-2001.
>  
> 


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