Re: [PATCH] hsearch.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe

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On 05/15/13 04:28, Peng Haitao wrote:
> The functions hsearch(), hcreate() and hdestroy() are not thread safe.

Applied to my local branch for this work.

Thank you, Peng.

Cheers,

Michael


> Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man3/hsearch.3 | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/hsearch.3 b/man3/hsearch.3
> index e66c840..3d6ae2e 100644
> --- a/man3/hsearch.3
> +++ b/man3/hsearch.3
> @@ -223,6 +223,21 @@ was not found in the table.
>  POSIX.1-2001 specifies only the
>  .B ENOMEM
>  error.
> +.SH ATTRIBUTES
> +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
> +The functions
> +.BR hcreate (),
> +.BR hsearch (),
> +and
> +.BR hdestroy ()
> +use a global space for storing the table, so they are not thread-safe.
> +.LP
> +The functions
> +.BR hcreate_r (),
> +.BR hsearch_r (),
> +and
> +.BR hdestroy_r ()
> +are thread-safe.
>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>  The functions
>  .BR hcreate (),
> 

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