From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] atof.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:20:17 +1300 Message-ID: <526AEEA1.30404@gmail.com> References: <1381203718-26118-1-git-send-email-penght@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1381203718-26118-1-git-send-email-penght-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Peng Haitao Cc: carlos-v2tUB8YBRSi3e3T8WW9gsA@public.gmane.org, aoliva-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 08.10.2013 16:41, Peng Haitao wrote: > The function atof() is thread safe with exceptions. Applied. Thanks, Michael > Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao > --- > man3/atof.3 | 10 +++++++++- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man3/atof.3 b/man3/atof.3 > index 1b19026..d900a27 100644 > --- a/man3/atof.3 > +++ b/man3/atof.3 > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ > .\" 386BSD man pages > .\" Modified Mon Mar 29 22:39:24 1993, David Metcalfe > .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:39:22 1993, Rik Faith (faith-+5Oa3zvhR2o3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org) > -.TH ATOF 3 2012-08-03 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > +.TH ATOF 3 2013-10-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > atof \- convert a string to a double > .SH SYNOPSIS > @@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ except that > does not detect errors. > .SH RETURN VALUE > The converted value. > +.SH ATTRIBUTES > +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) > +The > +.BR atof () > +function is thread-safe with exceptions. > +It can be safely used in multithreaded applications, as long as > +.BR setlocale (3) > +is not called to change the locale. > .SH CONFORMING TO > SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99. > .SH SEE ALSO > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ My next Linux/UNIX system programming course: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html