Re: [PATCH] getpwent.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe

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On 05/03/13 11:19, Peng Haitao wrote:
> The function getpwent() is not thread safe.


Applied to my local branch for this work.

Thank you, Peng.

Cheers,

Michael


> 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
> 

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