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: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:02:23 +0100 Message-ID: <54F55C7F.10909@gmail.com> References: <20150227004118.GA15530@jtriplet-mobl1> <54F011E4.1020502@gmail.com> <20150227163157.GA10309@cloud> <20150302164050.GA29046@cloud> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150302164050.GA29046@cloud> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: josh-iaAMLnmF4UmaiuxdJuQwMA@public.gmane.org Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Josh, On 03/02/2015 05:40 PM, josh-iaAMLnmF4UmaiuxdJuQwMA@public.gmane.org wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 05:27:38PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On 27 February 2015 at 17:31, wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 07:42:44AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> Doesn't appear to be in the current git repository. >> >> Pushed now, Josh. (I needed to get another release out of the way first.) > > No problem; thanks for the update. > > Related issue: the errors section of clone.2 claims it'll return EPERM > for CLONE_PID by something other than PID 0 (meaning, outside the > kernel), but that doesn't actually happen. Should that be dropped? (I > can send a patch if so.) I'd take a patch to fix that. (But note, if this is kernel behavior that has changed over time, it would be valuable to document when the change occurred.) Cheers, Michael -- 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