From: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: adrian@lisas.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de,
avagin@gmail.com, christian.brauner@ubuntu.com,
dhowells@redhat.com, fweimer@redhat.com, jannh@google.com,
keescook@chromium.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
mingo@elte.hu, oleg@redhat.com, xemul@virtuozzo.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] clone.2: Use pid_t for clone3() {child,parent}_tid
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:41:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191116114114.7066-3-christian@brauner.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191116114114.7066-1-christian@brauner.io>
From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Advertise to userspace that they should use proper pid_t types for
arguments returning a pid.
The kernel-internal struct kernel_clone_args currently uses int as type
and since POSIX mandates that pid_t is a signed integer type and glibc
and friends use int this is not an issue. After the merge window for
v5.5 closes we can switch struct kernel_clone_args over to using pid_t
as well without any danger in regressing current userspace.
Also note, that the new set tid feature which will be merged for v5.5
uses pid_t types as well.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
---
man2/clone.2 | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2
index faff2ada6..bf2d7c731 100644
--- a/man2/clone.2
+++ b/man2/clone.2
@@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ is a structure of the following form:
struct clone_args {
u64 flags; /* Flags bit mask */
u64 pidfd; /* Where to store PID file descriptor
- (\fIint *\fP) */
+ (\fIpid_t *\fP) */
u64 child_tid; /* Where to store child TID,
- in child's memory (\fIint *\fP) */
+ in child's memory (\fIpid_t *\fP) */
u64 parent_tid; /* Where to store child TID,
in parent's memory (\fIint *\fP) */
u64 exit_signal; /* Signal to deliver to parent on
--
2.24.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-16 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-16 11:41 [PATCH 1/3] clone.2: Fix typos Christian Brauner
2019-11-16 11:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] clone.2: Check for MAP_FAILED not NULL on mmap() Christian Brauner
2019-11-17 18:01 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2019-11-16 11:41 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2019-11-17 18:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] clone.2: Use pid_t for clone3() {child,parent}_tid Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2019-11-17 18:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] clone.2: Fix typos Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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