tags 323062 fixed-upstream thanks > > You may have found a fault in the man page, but I believe > > the fault may be the converse of what you think. > >... > > > The following note on the same page implies that this behavior is > > > intentional, and the documentation incorrect: > > > "the parent thread ID will be written in case CLONE_PARENT_SETTID" > > > > It is the above part of the manual page that I believe is incorrect. > > When I look again, your analysis seems correct. > > I'm working on a linux syscall emulator (qemu). I thought I was getting > glibc > assertion failures because of this issue. However I can't reproduce those > failures now. Sorry about the misleading bug report.
No problem -- you did in any case uncover a small error in the man page text, and that will be fixed in man-pages-2.08. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/ and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
