Hi Michael, >>> 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? > The classifications are based on the thread-safety levels defined in Solaris operating system, please refer to Sun's attr(5) page: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0220/6m6nkoroc?l=en&a=view#MT-Level Based on the classifications and POSIX standard, I classify functions by reading source code. -- Best Regards, Peng Haitao -- 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