Hi Carlos, On 10/20/2014 05:50 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 s/linux-kernel/linux/ (yes, they're housed at kernel.org, but...) > than glibc. Agreed. They should be consistent. > 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. Yes. By the way, how will the glibc manual maintain this info going forward? Alexandre did great work, but I suppose he will not want to do this forever! How will updates be made in the future? I ask because, of course, man-pages has a similar issue ;-). Cheers, Michael -- 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
