Re: [PATCH] siginterrupt.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe

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

Thanks, Haitao. Applied.

May I suggest that you CC Qian Lei on all of your patches, at least 
for as long as you are both working on this topic?

Cheers,

Michael


On 06/11/2014 09:02 AM, Peng Haitao wrote:
> The function siginterrupt() is not thread safe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  man3/siginterrupt.3 | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/siginterrupt.3 b/man3/siginterrupt.3
> index bdf8b21..8365348 100644
> --- a/man3/siginterrupt.3
> +++ b/man3/siginterrupt.3
> @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ set to indicate the cause of the error.
>  .TP
>  .B EINVAL
>  The specified signal number is invalid.
> +.SH ATTRIBUTES
> +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
> +The
> +.BR siginterrupt ()
> +function uses a global variable that is not protected,
> +so it is not thread-safe.
>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>  4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
>  POSIX.1-2008 marks
> 


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