From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] getlogin.3: Reformat thread-safety information Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:39:38 +0100 Message-ID: <54A2AB1A.3040207@gmail.com> References: <1413518358-32200-1-git-send-email-penght@cn.fujitsu.com> <5440B1A9.8020304@gmail.com> <5440B745.9020003@cn.fujitsu.com> <5440BC77.3040906@gmail.com> <54460FB4.40906@cn.fujitsu.com> <544FFE19.3040503@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <544FFE19.3040503-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Peng Haitao , Carlos O'Donell Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, "linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Alexandre Oliva , Ma Shimiao List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello Haitao, Ping on my question at the end of this mail Thanks, Michael On 10/28/2014 09:35 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 10/21/2014 09:48 AM, Peng Haitao wrote: >> >> On 10/20/2014 11:50 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) >>> wrote: >>>>> getlogin() is MT-Unsafe and is influenced by setlocale(), >>>>> So "MT-Unsafe locale" is right. >>>> >>>> Thank you for the confirmation. >>>> >>>> Just by the way, I see that the glibc manual says of getlogin: >>>> >>>> MT-Unsafe race:getlogin race:utent sig:ALRM timer locale >>>> >>>> I guess this covers some cases beyond what you document. Is that >>>> correct? >>> >>> I haven't reviewed the technical details of this issue, but I would be >>> very worried if the linux-kernel man pages had different annotations >>> than glibc. >>> >>> My expectation is that Peng should review the glibc annotations and >>> come talk to us if they are different from what will be documented in >>> the man pages. >>> >> >> We are reviewing the glibc annotations, the next step will >> talk to you and Alexandre about the different annotations. > > Thanks for this, Haitao. > >>> We should not have any differences. Either we adjust one or the other, >>> but both should match. >>> >> >> This is our goal. > > Good! > > Do you have an idea of how long the review process might take? > > Thanks, > > Micheal > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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