The fact that system(3) does not support pthread_atfork(3) also means that it is not thread safe. See the discussion for the proposal of a close-on-fork flag in the 2020 April and May timeframe, especially: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/15/1067 Signed-off-by: Nate Karstens <nate.karstens@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/system.3 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3 index aef40417a..8730fabd3 100644 --- a/man3/system.3 +++ b/man3/system.3 @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ l l l. Interface Attribute Value T{ .BR system () -T} Thread safety MT-Safe +T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe .TE .SH CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99. -- 2.17.1
