On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:01:27PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > > > I don't know. But looking at the git repo, it seems in the first git commit > > > (1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2) it was already safe, > > What do you mean by "safe"? Note that the manpage was written mainly based That you don't get bogus results on SMP systems. Now, it I think the note is obsolete (Peter confirmed that in fact it is), but we want to know when the note become obsolete. Thanks a lot, Rodrigo -- 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