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

PATCH Applied Peng Haitao 2 participants 2 messages Sep 15, 2011 – Mar 17, 2013 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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

The function calls thread-unsafe function, so it is not thread-safe.

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 man3/ttyslot.3 |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
man3/ttyslot.3 +8 -1
index 516366d..5fa8c25 100644
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\" This replaces an earlier man page written by Walter Harms
 .\" <walter.harms-jNDFPZUTrfTUvfpBxBsQfasoZZ7OtMbqG9Ur7JDdleE@public.gmane.org>.
 .\"
-.TH TTYSLOT 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH TTYSLOT 3 2011-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 ttyslot \- find the slot of the current user's terminal in some file
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -118,6 +118,13 @@ On error (e.g., if none of the file descriptors 0, 1 or 2 is
 associated with a terminal that occurs in this data base)
 it returns 0 on UNIX V6 and V7 and BSD-like systems,
 but \-1 on System V-like systems.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR ttyslot ()
+calls thread-unsafe function
+.BR getttyent (),
+so it is not thread-safe.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 SUSv1; marked as LEGACY in SUSv2; removed in POSIX.1-2001.
 SUSv2 requires \-1 on error.
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Quoted 2 lines · Peng Haitao

The function calls thread-unsafe function, so it is not thread-safe.

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Thanks,

Michael

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 man3/ttyslot.3 |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
man3/ttyslot.3 +8 -2
index 516366d..5fa8c25 100644
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\" This replaces an earlier man page written by Walter Harms
 .\" <walter.harms-jNDFPZUTrfTUvfpBxBsQfasoZZ7OtMbqG9Ur7JDdleE@public.gmane.org>.
 .\"
-.TH TTYSLOT 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH TTYSLOT 3 2011-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 ttyslot \- find the slot of the current user's terminal in some file
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -118,6 +118,13 @@ On error (e.g., if none of the file descriptors 0, 1 or 2 is
 associated with a terminal that occurs in this data base)
 it returns 0 on UNIX V6 and V7 and BSD-like systems,
 but \-1 on System V-like systems.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR ttyslot ()
+calls thread-unsafe function
+.BR getttyent (),
+so it is not thread-safe.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 SUSv1; marked as LEGACY in SUSv2; removed in POSIX.1-2001.
 SUSv2 requires \-1 on error.
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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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