+2012-01-26 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ 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.
+
2012-01-26 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen: Fix 2012-01-08 commit.
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
Portability problems not 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 atomic in multi-threaded programs.
+But the replacement function is not atomic; this matters in multi-threaded
+programs that spawn child processes.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: