As the replacement cannot be made thread-safe, we need to document this to prevent users from having a false sense of safety.
* doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi (pipe2): mention lack of thread-safety Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalper...@yhbt.net> --- I took the line off the existing documentation for the similar-in-purpose *at() functions. doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi index 2fef538..41965bc 100644 --- a/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: 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 safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: -- Eric Wong
