Re: Differences between man-pages and libc manual safety markings

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Hi Ma Shimiao,

You can see the whole discussion thread here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/7223

Thanks,

Michael


On 10/17/2014 03:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hello Haitao,
> 
> I was comparing some of the MT-Safety markings in man-pages versus the glibc
> manual (https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html)
> I found four cases that seem to contradict. Are there errors in either
> the man pages or in the glibc manual?
> 
> ==
> ctermid.3       MT-Unsafe race:ctermid/!s
> 	glibc: MT-Safe
> 
> man-pages and glibc manual disagree (man-pages seems to be more
> precise than glibc).
> 
> ==
> getcwd.3        MT-Safe env
> 	glibc: MT-Safe
> 
> man-pages and glibc manual disagree on "env" (man-pages seems 
> to be more precise than glibc).
> 
> ==
> getlogin.3      MT-Unsafe race:cuserid/!string locale
> 	glibc: MT-Unsafe race:getlogin race:utent sig:ALRM timer locale
> 
> man-pages and glibc manual disagree on "race:cuserid/!string" versus
> "race:getlogin"
> 
> ==
> regex.3         MT-Safe env
> 	glibc: MT-Safe locale
> 
> man-pages and glibc manual disagree on "env" versus "locale"
> 
> ==
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 


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