From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: Differences between man-pages and libc manual safety markings Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 07:12:32 +0100 Message-ID: <54ACCE50.3030703@gmail.com> References: <544118FA.3070003@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <544118FA.3070003-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ma Shimiao Cc: Peng Haitao , mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, Alexandre Oliva , Carlos O'Donell , "linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Qian Lei "Michael Kerrisk (gmail)" List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org [CC += Ma Shimiao] Hello Ma Shimiao, As the person taking over the ATTRIBUTES patch series for man-pages, are you aware of the earlier mail thread below? I will CC you into one or two of the other notable mails in this thread as well. Thanks, Michael On 10/17/2014 03:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Haitao, > > I was comparing some of the MT-Safety markings in man-pages versus the glibc > manual (https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html) > I found four cases that seem to contradict. Are there errors in either > the man pages or in the glibc manual? > > == > ctermid.3 MT-Unsafe race:ctermid/!s > glibc: MT-Safe > > man-pages and glibc manual disagree (man-pages seems to be more > precise than glibc). > > == > getcwd.3 MT-Safe env > glibc: MT-Safe > > man-pages and glibc manual disagree on "env" (man-pages seems > to be more precise than glibc). > > == > getlogin.3 MT-Unsafe race:cuserid/!string locale > glibc: MT-Unsafe race:getlogin race:utent sig:ALRM timer locale > > man-pages and glibc manual disagree on "race:cuserid/!string" versus > "race:getlogin" > > == > regex.3 MT-Safe env > glibc: MT-Safe locale > > man-pages and glibc manual disagree on "env" versus "locale" > > == > > Cheers, > > Michael > > -- 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