attributes.7: Rewrite introduction

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.SH DESCRIPTION .SH DESCRIPTION
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.SS POSIX safety concepts .IR Note :
This manual documents various safety properties of GNU C Library the text of this man page is based on the material taken from
functions, in lines that follow their prototypes and look like: 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{}} Various function manual pages include a section ATTRIBUTES
that describes the safety of calling the function in various contexts.
The properties are assessed according to the criteria set forth in the This section annotates functions with the following safety markings:
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.
.TP .TP
.I MT-Safe .I MT-Safe
.I MT-Safe .I MT-Safe