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clone.2: Minor change: move a paragraph from DESCRIPTION to NOTES 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2019-10-24 09:26:26 +02:00
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@ -80,11 +80,6 @@ But see the description of
.B CLONE_PARENT
below.)
.PP
One use of
.BR clone ()
is to implement threads: multiple flows of control in a program that
run concurrently in a shared address space.
.PP
When the child process is created with
.BR clone (),
it commences execution by calling the function pointed to by the argument
@ -865,6 +860,12 @@ Memory writes or file mappings/unmappings performed by one of the
processes do not affect the other, as with
.BR fork (2).
.SH NOTES
.PP
One use of
.BR clone ()
is to implement threads: multiple flows of control in a program that
run concurrently in a shared address space.
.PP
Note that the glibc
.BR clone ()
wrapper function makes some changes