Hi Peng, On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Michael, > >> Thanks. That looks promising. Could you elaborate on the meanings of >> the headings, and also explain how you came up with the lists? >> > > Because we have classified lots of the functions into following > classifications: Unsafe, Safe, Safe with Exceptions, MT-Safe, > MT-Safe with Exceptions. Okay -- I'll rephrase the question... ;-). By what means did you work out the classifications? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html