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getdate.3: Add description of the function is not thread-safe

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PATCH 1/1 getdate.3: Add description of the function is not thread-safe

The function getdate() uses a static variable "tmbuf", so it is not thread-safe.

Signed-off-by Peng Haitao <[email protected]>
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 man3/getdate.3 |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
man3/getdate.3 +10 -1
index 7f30f9c..038a49c 100644
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\" Modified, 2001-12-26, aeb
 .\" 2008-09-07, mtk, Various rewrites; added an example program.
 .\"
-.TH GETDATE 3 2010-09-20 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETDATE 3 2011-09-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 getdate, getdate_r \- convert a date-plus-time string to broken-down time
 .SH SYNOPSIS

@@ -190,6 +190,15 @@ File containing format patterns.
 .BR TZ ", " LC_TIME
 Variables used by
 .BR strptime (3).
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR getdate ()
+function is not thread-safe.
+.LP
+The
+.BR getdate_r ()
+function is thread-safe.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH NOTES
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1.7.1

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Quoted 2 lines · Peng Haitao

The function getdate() uses a static variable "tmbuf", so it is not thread-safe.

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thanks,

Michael

Quoted 41 lines
Signed-off-by Peng Haitao <[email protected]>
---
 man3/getdate.3 |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
man3/getdate.3 +10 -2
index 7f30f9c..038a49c 100644
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\" Modified, 2001-12-26, aeb
 .\" 2008-09-07, mtk, Various rewrites; added an example program.
 .\"
-.TH GETDATE 3 2010-09-20 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETDATE 3 2011-09-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 getdate, getdate_r \- convert a date-plus-time string to broken-down time
 .SH SYNOPSIS

@@ -190,6 +190,15 @@ File containing format patterns.
 .BR TZ ", " LC_TIME
 Variables used by
 .BR strptime (3).
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR getdate ()
+function is not thread-safe.
+.LP
+The
+.BR getdate_r ()
+function is thread-safe.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH NOTES
--

1.7.1

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Best Regards,
Peng Haitao

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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