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[PATCH] pipe2: document lack of thread-safety in replacement
From: |
Eric Wong |
Subject: |
[PATCH] pipe2: document lack of thread-safety in replacement |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:09:19 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
As the replacement cannot be made thread-safe, we need to
document this to prevent users from having a false sense
of safety.
* doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi (pipe2): mention lack of thread-safety
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <address@hidden>
---
I took the line off the existing documentation for the
similar-in-purpose *at() functions.
doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi
index 2fef538..41965bc 100644
--- a/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi
+++ b/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
This function is missing on many non-glibc platforms:
MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1,
HP-UX 11,
IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.7.1, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix
3.5, BeOS.
+But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not
multithread-safe.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
--
Eric Wong
- [PATCH] pipe2: document lack of thread-safety in replacement,
Eric Wong <=
Re: [PATCH] pipe2: document lack of thread-safety in replacement, Eric Blake, 2012/01/26