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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: contradictional sentence in clone(2) man page
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:09:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgNAkiLEEoL1=+jGJMpR=y2O4j8R95SQQkVnXdCF7TTrseSng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4530567.a0Z4EEqLWd@devpool47>

Hi Rolf,

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 09:33, Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com> wrote:
>
> In the discussion of CLONE_VM I find this sentence:
>
> > If the CLONE_VM flag is specified and the CLONE_VM flag is
> > not specified, then any alternate signal stack that was
> > established by sigaltstack(2) is cleared in the child
> > process.
>
> Which simply doesn't make sense. I guess one of them should have been the name
> of another flag.

Thanks for taking the time to report this. You are right. And by
chance this was reported and fixed just a few days ago:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=2a1b1111ca1a75e369afc6aaeb04f17acfcfdb41

Cheers,

Michael



-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-26 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-25  8:33 contradictional sentence in clone(2) man page Rolf Eike Beer
2021-01-25  9:09 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2021-01-25  9:21 ` Jakub Wilk

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