The function atof() is thread safe with exceptions. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/atof.3 | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/atof.3 b/man3/atof.3 index 1b19026..d900a27 100644 --- a/man3/atof.3 +++ b/man3/atof.3 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" 386BSD man pages .\" Modified Mon Mar 29 22:39:24 1993, David Metcalfe .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:39:22 1993, Rik Faith (faith@xxxxxxxxxx) -.TH ATOF 3 2012-08-03 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH ATOF 3 2013-10-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME atof \- convert a string to a double .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ except that does not detect errors. .SH RETURN VALUE The converted value. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR atof () +function is thread-safe with exceptions. +It can be safely used in multithreaded applications, as long as +.BR setlocale (3) +is not called to change the locale. .SH CONFORMING TO SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99. .SH SEE ALSO -- 1.8.3.1 -- 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
