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@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@
 .\"     386BSD man pages
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:50:48 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" Interchanged 'needle' and 'haystack'; added history, aeb, 980113.
-.TH MEMMEM 3  2014-03-17 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MEMMEM 3  2017-03-13 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 memmem \- locate a substring
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" "         /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
 .B #include <string.h>
-.sp
+.PP
 .BI "void *memmem(const void *" haystack ", size_t " haystacklen ,
 .BI "             const void *" needle ", size_t " needlelen  );
 .fi
@@ -57,12 +57,20 @@ The
 function returns a pointer to the beginning of the
 substring, or NULL if the substring is not found.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
-.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
-The
+For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
+.BR attributes (7).
+.TS
+allbox;
+lb lb lb
+l l l.
+Interface      Attribute       Value
+T{
 .BR memmem ()
-function is thread-safe.
+T}     Thread safety   MT-Safe
+.TE
 .SH CONFORMING TO
-This function is a GNU extension.
+This function is not specified in POSIX.1,
+but is present on a number of other systems.
 .SH BUGS
 .\" This function was broken in Linux libraries up to and including libc 5.0.9;
 .\" there the
@@ -73,7 +81,7 @@ This function is a GNU extension.
 .\" and a pointer to the end of the first occurrence of
 .\" .I needle
 .\" was returned.
-.\" 
+.\"
 .\" Both old and new libc's have the bug that if
 .\" .I needle
 .\" is empty,
@@ -81,9 +89,13 @@ This function is a GNU extension.
 .\" (instead of
 .\" .IR haystack )
 .\" is returned.
-And glibc 2.0 makes it worse, returning a pointer to the
-last byte of
+In glibc 2.0, if
+.I needle
+is empty,
+.BR memmem ()
+returns a pointer to the last byte of
 .IR haystack .
 This is fixed in glibc 2.1.
 .SH SEE ALSO
+.BR bstring (3),
 .BR strstr (3)