On 08.10.2013 16:41, Peng Haitao wrote: > The function atof() is thread safe with exceptions. Applied. Thanks, Michael > 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 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ My next Linux/UNIX system programming course: -- 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
