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.\"
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:45:39 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified 2000-02-13 by Nicol�s Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
-.TH TOUPPER 3 1993-04-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH TOUPPER 3 2013-12-24 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
toupper, tolower \- convert letter to upper or lower case
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ is undefined.
The value returned is that of the converted letter, or
.I c
if the conversion was not possible.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR toupper ()
+and
+.BR tolower ()
+functions are thread-safe with exceptions.
+These functions can be safely used in multithreaded applications,
+as long as
+.BR setlocale (3)
+is not called to change the locale.
.SH CONFORMING TO
C89, C99, 4.3BSD.
.SH BUGS