The function wcwidth() is thread safe with exceptions. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/wcwidth.3 | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/wcwidth.3 b/man3/wcwidth.3 index 87bfca9..b689eed 100644 --- a/man3/wcwidth.3 +++ b/man3/wcwidth.3 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ .\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ .\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html .\" -.TH WCWIDTH 3 2011-09-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH WCWIDTH 3 2013-11-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME wcwidth \- determine columns needed for a wide character .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ The function returns the number of column positions for .IR c . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR wcwidth () +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 POSIX.1-2001. -- 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
