The function iswalpha() is thread safe with exceptions. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/iswalpha.3 | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/iswalpha.3 b/man3/iswalpha.3 index fc2ef28..da16870 100644 --- a/man3/iswalpha.3 +++ b/man3/iswalpha.3 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ .\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html .\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 .\" -.TH ISWALPHA 3 1999-07-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH ISWALPHA 3 2014-01-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME iswalpha \- test for alphabetic wide character .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ if is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "alpha". Otherwise it returns zero. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR iswalpha () +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 during its execution. .SH CONFORMING TO C99. .SH NOTES -- 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
