Hey, Christian, Ping! Cheers, Michael On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 19:09, Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
