From b5dedda7d32678db45f53d3895b8ca06b3a10a84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peng Haitao Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:41:58 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] atof.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions The function atof() is thread safe with exceptions. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man3/atof.3 | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/atof.3 b/man3/atof.3 index 1b19026ee..d900a27fb 100644 --- a/man3/atof.3 +++ b/man3/atof.3 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" 386BSD man pages .\" Modified Mon Mar 29 22:39:24 1993, David Metcalfe .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:39:22 1993, Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.TH ATOF 3 2012-08-03 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH ATOF 3 2013-10-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME atof \- convert a string to a double .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ except that does not detect errors. .SH RETURN VALUE The converted value. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR atof () +function is thread-safe with exceptions. +It can be safely used in multithreaded applications, as long as +.BR setlocale (3) +is not called to change the locale. .SH CONFORMING TO SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99. .SH SEE ALSO