Re: contradictional sentence in clone(2) man page

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Hi Rolf,

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 09:33, Rolf Eike Beer <eb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In the discussion of CLONE_VM I find this sentence:
>
> > If the CLONE_VM flag is specified and the CLONE_VM flag is
> > not specified, then any alternate signal stack that was
> > established by sigaltstack(2) is cleared in the child
> > process.
>
> Which simply doesn't make sense. I guess one of them should have been the name
> of another flag.

Thanks for taking the time to report this. You are right. And by
chance this was reported and fixed just a few days ago:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=2a1b1111ca1a75e369afc6aaeb04f17acfcfdb41

Cheers,

Michael



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Michael Kerrisk
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