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pthreads.7: Reorder text on thread IDs 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-05-05 21:09:12 +02:00
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@ -121,12 +121,14 @@ This identifier is returned to the caller of
.BR pthread_create (3),
and a thread can obtain its own thread identifier using
.BR pthread_self (3).
Thread IDs are guaranteed to be unique only within a process.
(In all pthreads functions that accept a thread ID as an argument,
that ID by definition refers to a thread in
the same process as the caller.)
A thread ID may be reused after a terminated thread has been joined,
or a detached thread has terminated.
In all pthreads functions that accept a thread ID as an argument,
that ID by definition refers to a thread in
the same process as the caller.
.SS Thread-safe functions
A thread-safe function is one that can be safely
(i.e., it will deliver the same results regardless of whether it is)