Thanks, Haitao. Applied. Cheers, Michael On 04/01/2014 05:05 AM, Peng Haitao wrote: > 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. > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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