The function getpwent() is not thread safe. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/getpwent.3 | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/man3/getpwent.3 b/man3/getpwent.3 index bccc064..cd83936 100644 --- a/man3/getpwent.3 +++ b/man3/getpwent.3 @@ -151,6 +151,17 @@ Insufficient buffer space supplied. .TP .I /etc/passwd local password database file +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading(see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR getpwent() +is not thread-safe. +.LP +The +.BR setpwent() +and +.BR endpwent() +functions are thread-safe. .SH CONFORMING TO SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. The -- 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
