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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\" Copyright (C), 1995, Graeme W. Wilford. (Wilf.)
 .\"
+.\" %%%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.
@@ -19,10 +20,11 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" Wed Jun 14 16:10:28 BST 1995 Wilf. (G.Wilford@@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
 .\"
-.TH RE_COMP 3 1995-07-14 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH RE_COMP 3 2014-05-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 re_comp, re_exec \- BSD regex functions
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -32,9 +34,9 @@ re_comp, re_exec \- BSD regex functions
 .br
 .B #include <regex.h>
 .sp
-.BI "char *re_comp(char *" regex );
+.BI "char *re_comp(const char *" regex );
 .sp
-.BI "int re_exec(char *" string );
+.BI "int re_exec(const char *" string );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR re_comp ()
 is used to compile the null-terminated regular expression pointed to by
@@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ is used to assess whether the null-terminated string pointed to by
 .I string
 matches the previously compiled
 .IR regex .
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 .BR re_comp ()
 returns NULL on successful compilation of
 .I regex
@@ -61,13 +63,29 @@ otherwise it returns a pointer to an appropriate error message.
 
 .BR re_exec ()
 returns 1 for a successful match, zero for failure.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR re_comp ()
+and
+.BR re_exec ()
+functions are not thread-safe.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 4.3BSD.
 .SH NOTES
 These functions are obsolete; the functions documented in
 .BR regcomp (3)
 should be used instead.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR regcomp (3),
 .BR regex (7),
 GNU regex manual
+.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/.