LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / byteorder.3

diff --git a/original/man3/byteorder.3 b/original/man3/byteorder.3
index 1705427..efa5939 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/byteorder.3
+++ b/original/man3/byteorder.3
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:29:05 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" Modified Thu Jul 26 14:06:20 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
 .\"
-.TH BYTEORDER 3  2009-01-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH BYTEORDER 3  2014-04-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs \- convert values between host and network
 byte order
@@ -48,27 +48,40 @@ byte order
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR htonl ()
-function converts the unsigned integer \fIhostlong\fP
+function converts the unsigned integer
+.I hostlong
 from host byte order to network byte order.
 .PP
 The
 .BR htons ()
-function converts the unsigned short integer \fIhostshort\fP
+function converts the unsigned short integer
+.I hostshort
 from host byte order to network byte order.
 .PP
 The
 .BR ntohl ()
-function converts the unsigned integer \fInetlong\fP
+function converts the unsigned integer
+.I netlong
 from network byte order to host byte order.
 .PP
 The
 .BR ntohs ()
-function converts the unsigned short integer \fInetshort\fP
+function converts the unsigned short integer
+.I netshort
 from network byte order to host byte order.
 .PP
 On the i386 the host byte order is Least Significant Byte first,
 whereas the network byte order, as used on the Internet, is Most
 Significant Byte first.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR htonl (),
+.BR htons (),
+.BR ntohl (),
+and
+.BR ntohs ()
+functions are thread-safe.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 POSIX.1-2001.
 
@@ -80,3 +93,12 @@ instead of
 .BR endian (3),
 .BR gethostbyname (3),
 .BR getservent (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.