Hi Carlos, Ping on my question at the end of this mail. Cheers, Michael On 10/28/2014 09:34 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > 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
