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pipe2: refine doc about thread-safety * doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi: Clarify the extent of the multithread-safety problem. * doc/glibc-functions/accept4.texi: Likewise.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:21:45 +0100 (2012-01-26)
parents 8b91748dde8f
children 498a2211d839
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--- a/doc/glibc-functions/accept4.texi
+++ b/doc/glibc-functions/accept4.texi
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 This function is missing on many non-glibc platforms:
 MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11,
 IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.7.1, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
-But the replacement function is not atomic in multi-threaded programs.
+But the replacement function is not atomic; this matters in multi-threaded
+programs that spawn child processes.
 @end itemize
 
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