clone.2: Use pid_t for clone3() {child,parent}_tid

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>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Christian Brauner 2019-11-16 12:41:14 +01:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
parent 8eea66b8bb
commit be66dbc7a7
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@ -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