LDP: Update original to LDP v3.68

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

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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 .\"   Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/
 .\"   OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
 .\"
-.TH WCSWIDTH 3  2010-09-10 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH WCSWIDTH 3  2014-01-22 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 wcswidth \- determine columns needed for a fixed-size wide-character string
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ wide-character string
 .IR s ,
 truncated to at most length
 .IR n .
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR wcswidth ()
+function is thread-safe with exceptions.
+It can be safely used in multithreaded applications, as long as
+.BR setlocale (3)
+is not called to change the locale during its execution.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH NOTES
@@ -56,3 +64,12 @@ current locale.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR iswprint (3),
 .BR wcwidth (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.68 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/.