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Michael Kerrisk 82ee147ab6 clone.2: Document CLONE_NEWPID flag (new in Linux 2.6.24)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2008-11-25 20:54:05 -05:00
Michael Kerrisk 88619baf22 clone.2: spfix 2008-11-25 20:54:05 -05:00
Michael Kerrisk f5dbc7c8e9 clone.2: Place list of CLONE_* flags in alphabetical order
(No content changes.)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2008-11-25 20:54:05 -05:00
Michael Kerrisk a5a061ee0c clone.2: srcfix: added comment about CLONE_STOPPED going away in glibc 2.8 2008-11-07 21:32:57 -05:00
Sam Varshavchik 9291ce36fe ffix 2008-09-25 09:50:14 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 314c8ff41d Wording fix 2008-09-23 07:22:43 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e7d807b715 Wording fix. 2008-09-23 06:58:51 +02:00
John Reiser a1d48abb60 Fine tune discussion of getpid() caching bug.
The error by getpid() in the presence of clone() occurs
only for a fork-like clone (one that omits CLONE_VM from the flags.)
This is a low-level detail, but there is no problem [known-to-me]
for thread-like clone().
2008-09-23 06:55:29 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c60237c9b5 Clarify text describing getpid() caching bug for clone() wrapper.
See also: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6910
and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417521
2008-09-23 05:04:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 84811e86e2 wfix 2008-07-12 11:01:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c4bb193f3c s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given
to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.
2008-07-10 20:53:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6387216bb2 Wrap lines at sentence breaks. 2008-06-28 04:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 53c94269ec wfix 2008-04-25 09:53:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef37eaf2e8 Added note that CLONE_STOP (which no-one ever used anyway) is now deprecated. 2008-04-14 13:03:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 21a0b03de8 Added FIXMEs 2008-02-11 09:02:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8382f16db1 grfix 2007-12-25 21:28:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34ccb744ec s/x86/i386/ 2007-12-24 17:31:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0967c11fb9 s/etc/etc./ 2007-12-22 22:43:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2777b1caec Remove section numbers for page references where the
reference refers to the page itself.  (This stops man2html
producing links from a page back to itself.)
2007-11-24 10:10:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0daa9e92d0 Fix redundant formatting macros 2007-09-20 16:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c11b1abf2e Change mtk's email address 2007-09-20 06:52:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 185341d477 Added FIXME 2007-08-05 09:39:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22399250c3 Name "ia64" consistently. 2007-07-08 16:06:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc4615cc78 Added/updated glibc feature test macro requirements 2007-07-08 12:11:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 360ed6b354 Added FIXMEs. 2007-06-28 06:26:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 682edefb1b ffix 2007-06-22 17:16:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0b9bdf82fb ffix 2007-06-20 22:15:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b0e0996ee the syscall is exported as "__clone2" not "clone2". 2007-06-19 20:09:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9bfdb9c21 Convert to American spelling conventions 2007-06-08 09:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9343c5c13 Removed version number from .TH line 2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 735f354f03 wfix 2007-05-28 11:07:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c12fd10dcb Update these pages to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros have
gone away.
2007-05-26 15:22:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5f77cc8 Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
2007-05-18 16:06:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a759cc870f Renamed .SH AVAILABILITY to .SH VERSIONS 2007-05-16 04:53:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e8a7fb3a8 wrappped source line 2007-05-16 04:32:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0bfa087b03 Add section numbers to references to other pages 2007-05-11 23:07:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c13182efa3 Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing
white space.
2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf0a9ace57 ffix 2007-04-05 12:36:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75b48e9d74 Various fixes to CONFORMING TO 2006-12-17 01:34:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ff929e3b15 Added more details to prototype.
Added discussion of IA-64's clone2() system call.
2006-12-04 05:25:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a5053dcb15 Reinstate text on CLONE_DETACHED, and add a few words. 2006-09-04 06:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 953ba3f070 x 2006-08-04 08:41:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c10859eb0d Fix unbalanced quotes 2006-05-31 22:16:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5cc01e9c88 Document unshare(2), new in 2.6.16. 2006-03-20 21:29:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 785e717bc1 We won't add unshare(2) just yet, so remove SEE ALSO entries for now. 2006-03-20 06:38:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16718a1c3d Added comment in SYNOPSIS to note that syscall(2) may be
preferable over _syscallN (see intro(2)).
2006-03-16 00:50:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d63e9a260b Added SEE ALSO for new unshare.2 2006-03-05 20:27:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 82a060204c minor punctuation clarification 2006-02-16 04:55:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29546c248f Comented out crufty text describing EINVAL error
for the now obsolete CLONE_DETACHED flag.
Under CLONE_SIGHAND, noted that 'flags' must also include
CLONE_VM if CLONE_SIGHAND is specified.
2006-02-16 04:00:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2ccb99ea53 Remove duplicate CLONE_STOPPED text. 2006-02-16 03:17:12 +00:00