From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone.2: Document that clone silently ignores CLONE_PID and CLONE_STOPPED Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:42:44 +0100 Message-ID: <54F011E4.1020502@gmail.com> References: <20150227004118.GA15530@jtriplet-mobl1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150227004118.GA15530@jtriplet-mobl1> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Josh Triplett Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 02/27/2015 01:41 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > Normally, system calls return EINVAL for flags they don't support. > Explicitly document that clone does *not* produce an error for these two > obsolete flags. Thanks, Josh! Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett > --- > man2/clone.2 | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2 > index 91c3684..10cef7d 100644 > --- a/man2/clone.2 > +++ b/man2/clone.2 > @@ -534,7 +534,8 @@ This is good for hacking the system, but otherwise > of not much use. > Since 2.3.21 this flag can be > specified only by the system boot process (PID 0). > -It disappeared in Linux 2.5.16. > +It disappeared in Linux 2.5.16. Since then, the kernel silently ignores it > +without error. > .TP > .BR CLONE_PTRACE " (since Linux 2.2)" > If > @@ -599,7 +600,8 @@ This flag was > from Linux 2.6.25 onward, > and was > .I removed > -altogether in Linux 2.6.38. > +altogether in Linux 2.6.38. Since then, the kernel silently ignores it without > +error. > .\" glibc 2.8 removed this defn from bits/sched.h > .TP > .BR CLONE_SYSVSEM " (since Linux 2.5.10)" > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html