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libfiu: Add a thread-safety section in the manpage

author Alberto Bertogli
2010-10-11 01:41:50 UTC
committer Alberto Bertogli
2010-10-11 01:41:50 UTC
parent 1fd29abe296f02239e16ba69e4e0277c87d016e7

libfiu: Add a thread-safety section in the manpage

Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>

libfiu/libfiu.3 +9 -0

diff --git a/libfiu/libfiu.3 b/libfiu/libfiu.3
index ab46ae1..b7e3616 100644
--- a/libfiu/libfiu.3
+++ b/libfiu/libfiu.3
@@ -168,6 +168,15 @@ functions.
 Enables remote control over named pipes with the given basename. See the
 remote control documentation that comes with the library for more detail.
 
+.SS THREAD SAFETY
+
+The library is thread-safe. The list of enabled failure points is shared among
+all threads.
+
+Care should be taken in the user-provided functions given to
+.BR fiu_enable_external() ,
+as they can be run in parallel.
+
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR fiu-run (1),
 .BR fiu-ctrl (1).