(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.65

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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" References consulted:
 .\"     Linux libc source code
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     386BSD man pages
 .\" Modified Mon Apr 12 12:54:34 1993, David Metcalfe
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:13:52 1993, Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.TH INDEX 3 2009-03-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH INDEX 3 2014-04-01 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 index, rindex \- locate character in string
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -48,16 +50,23 @@ The
 function returns a pointer to the last occurrence
 of the character \fIc\fP in the string \fIs\fP.
 .PP
-The terminating NULL character is considered to be a part of the
+The terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq) is considered to be a part of the
 strings.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 The
 .BR index ()
 and
 .BR rindex ()
 functions return a pointer to
 the matched character or NULL if the character is not found.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR index ()
+and
+.BR rindex ()
+functions are thread-safe.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 4.3BSD; marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001.
 POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
 .BR index ()
@@ -68,12 +77,21 @@ recommending
 and
 .BR strrchr (3)
 instead.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR memchr (3),
 .BR strchr (3),
+.BR string (3),
 .BR strpbrk (3),
 .BR strrchr (3),
 .BR strsep (3),
 .BR strspn (3),
 .BR strstr (3),
 .BR strtok (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.