The function getdate() uses a static variable "tmbuf", so it is not thread-safe. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/getdate.3 | 11 ++++++++++- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/getdate.3 b/man3/getdate.3 index 7f30f9c..038a49c 100644 --- a/man3/getdate.3 +++ b/man3/getdate.3 @@ -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 -- 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
