Re: [PATCH] iswalpha.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions

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

Thanks, Haitao. Applied.

Cheers

Michael



On 01/28/2014 09:13 AM, Peng Haitao wrote:
> The function iswalpha() is thread safe with exceptions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  man3/iswalpha.3 | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/iswalpha.3 b/man3/iswalpha.3
> index fc2ef28..da16870 100644
> --- a/man3/iswalpha.3
> +++ b/man3/iswalpha.3
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>  .\"   OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
>  .\"   ISO/IEC 9899:1999
>  .\"
> -.TH ISWALPHA 3  1999-07-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
> +.TH ISWALPHA 3  2014-01-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
>  .SH NAME
>  iswalpha \- test for alphabetic wide character
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
> @@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ if
>  is a wide character
>  belonging to the wide-character class "alpha".
>  Otherwise it returns zero.
> +.SH ATTRIBUTES
> +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
> +The
> +.BR iswalpha ()
> +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 during its execution.
>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>  C99.
>  .SH NOTES
> 


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