The function calls thread-unsafe function, so it is not thread-safe. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/ttyslot.3 | 9 ++++++++- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/ttyslot.3 b/man3/ttyslot.3 index 516366d..5fa8c25 100644 --- a/man3/ttyslot.3 +++ b/man3/ttyslot.3 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" This replaces an earlier man page written by Walter Harms .\" <walter.harms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. .\" -.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. -- 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