The functions ecvt() and fcvt() return a string located in a static buffer which is overwritten by the next call to the functions, so they are not thread-safe. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/ecvt.3 | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/ecvt.3 b/man3/ecvt.3 index c35879f..0506d1f 100644 --- a/man3/ecvt.3 +++ b/man3/ecvt.3 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:40:39 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@xxxxxxxxxx) .\" Modified Fri Jun 25 12:10:47 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@xxxxxx) .\" -.TH ECVT 3 2010-09-20 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH ECVT 3 2013-03-12 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME ecvt, fcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ The static string is overwritten by each call to .BR ecvt () or .BR fcvt (). +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR ecvt () +and +.BR fcvt () +functions are not thread-safe. .SH CONFORMING TO SVr2; marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001. -- 1.8.1.4 -- 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
