* contradictional sentence in clone(2) man page
@ 2021-01-25 8:33 Rolf Eike Beer
2021-01-25 9:09 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-25 9:21 ` Jakub Wilk
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From: Rolf Eike Beer @ 2021-01-25 8:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Kerrisk; +Cc: Alejandro Colomar, linux-man
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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.
Eike
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* Re: contradictional sentence in clone(2) man page
2021-01-25 8:33 contradictional sentence in clone(2) man page Rolf Eike Beer
@ 2021-01-25 9:09 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-25 9:21 ` Jakub Wilk
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From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2021-01-25 9:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rolf Eike Beer; +Cc: Alejandro Colomar, linux-man
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
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* Re: contradictional sentence in clone(2) man page
2021-01-25 8:33 contradictional sentence in clone(2) man page Rolf Eike Beer
2021-01-25 9:09 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
@ 2021-01-25 9:21 ` Jakub Wilk
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From: Jakub Wilk @ 2021-01-25 9:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rolf Eike Beer; +Cc: Michael Kerrisk, Alejandro Colomar, linux-man
>
* Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>, 2021-01-25, 09:33:
>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.
Yup, already fixed in git:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=2a1b1111ca1a75e3
--
Jakub Wilk
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