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
