The functions random(), srandom(), initstate() and setstate() are thread safe. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/random.3 | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/random.3 b/man3/random.3 index e1a8e17..dc6fa9f 100644 --- a/man3/random.3 +++ b/man3/random.3 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:13:39 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@xxxxxxxxxx) .\" Modified Sun Aug 20 21:47:07 2000, aeb .\" -.TH RANDOM 3 2013-04-19 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH RANDOM 3 2014-03-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME random, srandom, initstate, setstate \- random number generator .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -149,6 +149,15 @@ was NULL. .B EINVAL A state array of less than 8 bytes was specified to .BR initstate (). +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR random (), +.BR srandom (), +.BR initstate (), +and +.BR setstate () +functions are thread-safe. .SH CONFORMING TO 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. .SH NOTES -- 1.8.5.3 -- 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
