.\"
.\" Minor additions, aeb, 2013-06-21
.\"
-.TH ETHER_ATON 3 2013-07-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ETHER_ATON 3 2014-07-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ether_aton, ether_ntoa, ether_ntohost, ether_hostton, ether_line,
ether_ntoa_r, ether_aton_r \- Ethernet address manipulation routines
.fi
.in
.SH ATTRIBUTES
-.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
-The
-.BR ether_aton ()
-and
+For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
+.BR attributes (7).
+.ad l
+.TS
+allbox;
+lbw33 lb lb
+l l l.
+Interface Attribute Value
+T{
+.BR ether_aton (),
.BR ether_ntoa ()
-functions are not thread-safe.
-.LP
-The
+T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe
+T{
.BR ether_ntohost (),
.BR ether_hostton (),
.BR ether_line (),
-.BR ether_ntoa_r ()
-and
+.BR ether_ntoa_r (),
.BR ether_aton_r ()
-functions are thread-safe.
+T} Thread safety MT-Safe
+.TE
+.ad
.SH CONFORMING TO
4.3BSD, SunOS.
.SH BUGS
-The glibc 2.2.5 implementation of
+In glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, the implementation of
.BR ether_line ()
+.\" The fix was presumably commit c0a0f9a32c8baa6ab93d00eb42d92c02e9e146d7
+.\" which was in glibc 2.3
is broken.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ethers (5)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.68 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.75 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,