The functions strtoul(), strtoull() and strtouq() are thread safe with exceptions. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/strtoul.3 | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/strtoul.3 b/man3/strtoul.3 index a40a99a..034f647 100644 --- a/man3/strtoul.3 +++ b/man3/strtoul.3 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" Fixed typo, aeb, 950823 .\" 2002-02-22, joey, mihtjel: Added strtoull() .\" -.TH STRTOUL 3 2011-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH STRTOUL 3 2014-01-27 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME strtoul, strtoull, strtouq \- convert a string to an unsigned long integer .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -162,6 +162,18 @@ to .B EINVAL in case no conversion was performed (no digits seen, and 0 returned). +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR strtoul (), +.BR strtoull (), +and +.BR strtouq () +functions are thread-safe with exceptions. +These functions can be safely used in multithreaded applications, +as long as +.BR setlocale (3) +is not called to change the locale during their execution. .SH CONFORMING TO .BR strtoul () conforms to SVr4, C89, C99 and POSIX-2001, and -- 1.8.4.2 -- 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