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diff --git a/man7/signal-safety.7 b/man7/signal-safety.7
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@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ must make async-signal-safe.
(An implementation may provide safe implementations of additional functions,
but this is not required by the standard and other implementations
may not provide the same guarantees.)
+.PP
In general, a function is async-signal-safe either because it is reentrant
or because it is atomic with respect to signals
(i.e., its execution can't be interrupted by a signal handler).