[PATCH] manual: Document setlogmask as MT-safe.
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Feb 13 21:04:45 GMT 2025
* Carlos O'Donell:
> setlogmask(3) was made MT-safe in glibc-2.33 with the fix for
> bug 26100.
> ---
> manual/syslog.texi | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/manual/syslog.texi b/manual/syslog.texi
> index 02f84d6e6f..90a6487c02 100644
> --- a/manual/syslog.texi
> +++ b/manual/syslog.texi
> @@ -498,10 +498,7 @@ The symbols referred to in this section are declared in the file
>
> @deftypefun int setlogmask (int @var{mask})
> @standards{BSD, syslog.h}
> -@safety{@prelim{}@mtunsafe{@mtasurace{:LogMask}}@asunsafe{}@acsafe{}}
> -@c Read and modify are not guarded by syslog_lock, so concurrent changes
> -@c or even uses are undefined. This should use an atomic swap instead,
> -@c at least for modifications.
> +@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@asunsafe{}@acsafe{}}
>
> @code{setlogmask} sets a mask (the ``logmask'') that determines which
> future @code{syslog} calls shall be ignored. If a program has not
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Thanks,
Florian
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