On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 01:12, Scott S <ssimmons9999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> man-pages-posix-2013-a-pthread_once.patch
>
> From 0409c3370ddd08cec10586f6f52fe1fbe3c717ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Nikola=20Forr=C3=B3?= <nforro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:35:02 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] pthread_once.3p: fix return type of initialize_random()
> function
Please explain this change.
Thanks,
Michael
> ---
> man-pages-posix-2013-a/man3p/pthread_once.3p | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man-pages-posix-2013-a/man3p/pthread_once.3p b/man-pages-posix-2013-a/man3p/pthread_once.3p
> index 316b1e9..db83d63 100644
> --- a/man-pages-posix-2013-a/man3p/pthread_once.3p
> +++ b/man-pages-posix-2013-a/man3p/pthread_once.3p
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ on entry to a routine, as follows:
> .nf
> \fB
> static int random_is_initialized = 0;
> -extern int initialize_random();
> +extern void initialize_random();
> .P
> int random_function()
> {
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ becomes:
> \fB
> #include <pthread.h>
> static pthread_once_t random_is_initialized = PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT;
> -extern int initialize_random();
> +extern void initialize_random();
> .P
> int random_function()
> {
> --
> 2.7.4
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
