Hello Peng, NOTE: I have not yet applied this patch. See comments below. On 05/03/13 11:18, Peng Haitao wrote: > The function exit() is not thread safe. > > Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man3/exit.3 | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man3/exit.3 b/man3/exit.3 > index 51163e4..5e607b1 100644 > --- a/man3/exit.3 > +++ b/man3/exit.3 > @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ termination, respectively. > The > .BR exit () > function does not return. > +.SH ATTRIBUTES > +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) > +The > +.BR exit () > +uses a global variable that is not protected, so it is not thread-safe. Ouch! Really? so one cannot call exit(3) from a multithreaded program? This seems a clear violation of the standard. Could you provide some pointers to more information on this point (e.g., URL of mail thread archive discussions.) Thanks, Michael -- 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
