From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Brauner Subject: Re: For review: documentation of clone3() system call Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:07:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20191025170726.rqsquw4v4cuhduek@wittgenstein> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: Christian Brauner , lkml , linux-man , Kees Cook , Florian Weimer , Oleg Nesterov , Arnd Bergmann , David Howells , Pavel Emelyanov , Andrew Morton , Adrian Reber , Andrei Vagin , Linux API , Jann Horn List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 06:59:31PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Christian and all, > > I've made a first shot at adding documentation for clone3(). You can > see the diff here: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=faa0e55ae9e490d71c826546bbdef954a1800969 > > In the end, I decided that the most straightforward approach was to > add the documentation as part of the existing clone(2) page. This has > the advantage of avoiding duplication of information across two pages, > and perhaps also makes it easier to see the commonality of the two > APIs. > > Because the new text is integrated into the existing page, I think it > makes most sense to just show that page text for review purposes. I > welcome input on the below. > > The notable changes are: > * In the first part of the page, up to and including the paragraph > with the subheading "The flags bit mask" > * Minor changes in the description of CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID, > CLONE_CHILD_SETTID, CLONE_PARENT_SETTID, and CLONE_PIDFD, to reflect > the argument differences between clone() and clone2() > > Most of the resy of page is unchanged. > > I welcome fixes, suggestions for improvements, etc. Thank you Michael, for doing this. I will hopefully get around to reviewing this soon but it might take a few days (latest after next week :( because of OSS/LSS). Christian