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.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999
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-.TH MBSINIT 3 2000-11-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MBSINIT 3 2014-03-18 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
mbsinit \- test for initial shift state
.SH SYNOPSIS
.I *ps
is an initial state, or if
.I ps
-is a NULL pointer.
-Otherwise it returns 0.
+is NULL.
+Otherwise, it returns 0.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR mbsinit ()
+function is thread-safe.
.SH CONFORMING TO
C99.
.SH NOTES
category of the
current locale.
.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR mbrlen (3),
+.BR mbrtowc (3),
+.BR wcrtomb (3),
.BR mbsrtowcs (3),
.BR wcsrtombs (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/.