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byteorder.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe 

The functions htonl(), htons(), ntohl() and ntohs() are thread
safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:29:05 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:29:05 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified Thu Jul 26 14:06:20 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) .\" Modified Thu Jul 26 14:06:20 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
.\" .\"
.TH BYTEORDER 3 2009-01-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .TH BYTEORDER 3 2014-04-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME .SH NAME
htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs \- convert values between host and network htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs \- convert values between host and network
byte order byte order
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On the i386 the host byte order is Least Significant Byte first, On the i386 the host byte order is Least Significant Byte first,
whereas the network byte order, as used on the Internet, is Most whereas the network byte order, as used on the Internet, is Most
Significant Byte first. Significant Byte first.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
The
.BR htonl (),
.BR htons (),
.BR ntohl (),
and
.BR ntohs ()
functions are thread-safe.
.SH CONFORMING TO .SH CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001. POSIX.1-2001.