tags 533868 fixed-upstream thanks Hello Shachar
On 6/21/09, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.21-1 > Severity: normal > > In the clone(2) man page, sys_clone is described (the kernel level system > call). The > description there has inconsistent argument count. > > The first paragraph claims that sys_clone only has the flags and child stack > arguments > (making a total of two). > > The third paragraph says that kernel 2.5.49 added two more arguments, making > a total > of five. > > Either an argument is missing from the description, or someone made an > algebric error. I think it's a case of bit rot. 2.5.32 added 1 new argument; 2.5.49 added two more. But much of the text in the paragraph that you refer is repeated elsewhere in the page, si I've simplified that paragraph to this: [[ In Linux 2.4 and earlier, .BR clone () does not take arguments .IR ptid , .IR tls , and .IT ctid . ]] Thanks for your report! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
