[PATCH] alloca.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe

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The function alloca() is thread safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 man3/alloca.3 | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man3/alloca.3 b/man3/alloca.3
index 0d593ed..7d11c63 100644
--- a/man3/alloca.3
+++ b/man3/alloca.3
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .\"     Various rewrites and additions (notes on longjmp() and SIGSEGV).
 .\"     Weaken warning against use of alloca() (as per Debian bug 461100).
 .\"
-.TH ALLOCA 3 2013-05-12 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ALLOCA 3 2013-10-07 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 alloca \- allocate memory that is automatically freed
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ The
 .BR alloca ()
 function returns a pointer to the beginning of the allocated space.
 If the allocation causes stack overflow, program behavior is undefined.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR alloca ()
+function is thread-safe.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 This function is not in POSIX.1-2001.
 
-- 
1.8.3.1

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