Hello Peng, On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The data returned by readdir() may be overwritten by subsequent calls to > readdir() for the same directory stream, so it is not thread-safe. I've applied this patch in my local branch. See also my general comments in the reply to the ecvt.3 patch. Thanks for the patch. Michael > Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man3/readdir.3 | 11 ++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man3/readdir.3 b/man3/readdir.3 > index c788ba9..b70dc85 100644 > --- a/man3/readdir.3 > +++ b/man3/readdir.3 > @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ > .\" Rework discussion of nonstandard structure fields. > .\" 2008-09-11, mtk, Document readdir_r(). > .\" > -.TH READDIR 3 2012-07-07 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > +.TH READDIR 3 2013-03-12 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > readdir, readdir_r \- read a directory > .SH SYNOPSIS > @@ -142,6 +142,15 @@ returns 0, and returns NULL in > .TP > .B EBADF > Invalid directory stream descriptor \fIdirp\fP. > +.SH ATTRIBUTES > +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) > +The > +.BR readdir () > +function is not thread-safe. > +.LP > +The > +.BR readdir_r () > +function is thread-safe. > .SH CONFORMING TO > SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. > .SH NOTES > -- > 1.8.1.4 > -- 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
