On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> getlogin() is MT-Unsafe and is influenced by setlocale(), >> So "MT-Unsafe locale" is right. > > Thank you for the confirmation. > > Just by the way, I see that the glibc manual says of getlogin: > > MT-Unsafe race:getlogin race:utent sig:ALRM timer locale > > I guess this covers some cases beyond what you document. Is that > correct? I haven't reviewed the technical details of this issue, but I would be very worried if the linux-kernel man pages had different annotations than glibc. My expectation is that Peng should review the glibc annotations and come talk to us if they are different from what will be documented in the man pages. We should not have any differences. Either we adjust one or the other, but both should match. Cheers, Carlos. -- 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