Hello Valentin
On 1/10/21 11:22 AM, Valentin wrote:
>>From 2b076eb6579e8461eb16450f2e7f2c2f1c82fbad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Valentin Kettner <vakevk@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 11:18:20 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] clone.2: Fix types in clone_args
>
> A file descriptor is an int so it should be stored through an int pointer while
> parent_tid should have the same type as child_tid which is pid_t pointer.
Thanks! Patch applied.
Cheers,
Michael
> ---
> man2/clone.2 | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2
> index ce55997b5..fecec90c8 100644
> --- a/man2/clone.2
> +++ b/man2/clone.2
> @@ -183,11 +183,11 @@ is a structure of the following form:
> struct clone_args {
> u64 flags; /* Flags bit mask */
> u64 pidfd; /* Where to store PID file descriptor
> - (\fIpid_t *\fP) */
> + (\fIint *\fP) */
> u64 child_tid; /* Where to store child TID,
> in child\(aqs memory (\fIpid_t *\fP) */
> u64 parent_tid; /* Where to store child TID,
> - in parent\(aqs memory (\fIint *\fP) */
> + in parent\(aqs memory (\fIpid_t *\fP) */
> u64 exit_signal; /* Signal to deliver to parent on
> child termination */
> u64 stack; /* Pointer to lowest byte of stack */
>
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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