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attributes.7: Rewrite introduction 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -26,17 +26,15 @@ attributes \- POSIX safety concepts
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\"
.\"
.SS POSIX safety concepts
This manual documents various safety properties of GNU C Library
functions, in lines that follow their prototypes and look like:
.IR Note :
the text of this man page is based on the material taken from
the "POSIX Safety Concepts" section of the GNU C Library manual.
Further details on the topics described here can be found in that
manual.
@sampsafety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}}
The properties are assessed according to the criteria set forth in the
POSIX standard for such safety contexts as
Thread-Safety, Async-Signal-Safety and Async-Cancel-Safety.
Intuitive definitions of these properties,
attempting to capture the meaning of the standard definitions, follow.
Various function manual pages include a section ATTRIBUTES
that describes the safety of calling the function in various contexts.
This section annotates functions with the following safety markings:
.TP
.I MT-Safe
.I MT-Safe