The functions if_nametoindex() and if_indextoname() are thread safe. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/if_nametoindex.3 | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/if_nametoindex.3 b/man3/if_nametoindex.3 index 4bce79d..1d6de4e 100644 --- a/man3/if_nametoindex.3 +++ b/man3/if_nametoindex.3 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" -.TH IF_NAMETOINDEX 3 2012-12-14 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH IF_NAMETOINDEX 3 2014-04-01 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME if_nametoindex, if_indextoname \- mappings between network interface names and indexes @@ -82,6 +82,13 @@ may also fail for any of the errors specified for .BR socket (2) or .BR ioctl (2). +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR if_nametoindex () +and +.BR if_indextoname () +functions are thread-safe. .SH CONFORMING TO RFC\ 3493, POSIX.1-2001. -- 1.9.0 -- 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