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[gnulib.git] / doc / glibc-functions / pipe2.texi

diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi
index e632d3d..2c62acb 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi
+++ b/doc/glibc-functions/pipe2.texi
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 This function is missing on many non-glibc platforms:
 MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11,
 IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.7.1, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
-But the replacement function is not atomic in multi-threaded programs.
+But the replacement function is not atomic; this matters in multi-threaded
+programs that spawn child processes.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: