linux-kernel - Re: For review: documentation of clone3() system call

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Date:   Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:07:27 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Adrian Reber <adrian@...as.de>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: For review: documentation of clone3() system call

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