From 61dd6208fb1e59a423b6dfa712a3c896c34b2590 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:24:15 +0530
Subject: New API to set default thread attributes

This patch introduces two new convenience functions to set the default
thread attributes used for creating threads.  This allows a programmer
to set the default thread attributes just once in a process and then
run pthread_create without additional attributes.
---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 36de21eee2..ea9c6a0dd2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ Version 2.18
 
 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
   for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
+
+* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
+  pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
+  attributes of a process.
 
 Version 2.17
 
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