Re: [PATCH] getlogin.3: Reformat thread-safety information

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On 10/20/2014 11:50 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 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 are reviewing the glibc annotations, the next step will
talk to you and Alexandre about the different annotations.

> We should not have any differences. Either we adjust one or the other,
> but both should match.
> 

This is our goal.
Thanks.

-- 
Best Regards,
Peng

> Cheers,
> Carlos.
> 

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