The implementation of the fork() step in posix_spawn(2) relies on either fork(2), vfork(2) or clone(2) depending on the version of the glibc and the arguments passed to posix_spawn(2). It is sometimes ambiguous whether, when we are mentioning "fork(2)", we are referring to the fork() step or the actual fork(2) syscall. This patch hopefully avoids the ambiguity by replacing confusing occurrences by "the xxx() step" where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Olivier Gayot <olivier.gayot@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/posix_spawn.3 | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/posix_spawn.3 b/man3/posix_spawn.3 index 8badb43bf..72e7509d8 100644 --- a/man3/posix_spawn.3 +++ b/man3/posix_spawn.3 @@ -220,10 +220,10 @@ the requested file. .PP .SS pre-exec() step: housekeeping In between the -.BR fork (2) +.BR fork() and the -.BR exec (3), -a child process may need to perform a set of housekeeping actions. +.BR exec() +steps, a child process may need to perform a set of housekeeping actions. The .BR posix_spawn () and @@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ and place the PID of the child process in .IR pid , and return 0. -If there is an error before or during the -.BR fork (2), +If there is an error during the +.BR fork() step, then no child is created, the contents of .IR *pid -- 2.19.1
