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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-10-24 09:25:14 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-10-24 09:25:14 +0200
commit5fbce8f22b802ef68b1ffda70f476232ff503e40 (patch)
treebdb9276d4c51fe0a484449fec3b698b640e23146
parent81c2368f462f25714f4a153abb61a25a142cf701 (diff)
downloadman-pages-5fbce8f22b802ef68b1ffda70f476232ff503e40.tar.gz
clone.2: Add some subsection headings
Again, in preparation for adding clone3() documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/clone.28
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2
index 3390747b14..a688e9b3ab 100644
--- a/man2/clone.2
+++ b/man2/clone.2
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ is the exit status for the child process.
The child process may also terminate explicitly by calling
.BR exit (2)
or after receiving a fatal signal.
+.\"
+.SS The child stack
.PP
The
.I stack
@@ -125,6 +127,8 @@ Stacks grow downward on all processors that run Linux
.I stack
usually points to the topmost address of the memory space set up for
the child stack.
+.\"
+.SS The child termination signal
.PP
The low byte of
.I flags
@@ -141,9 +145,11 @@ options when waiting for the child with
.BR wait (2).
If no signal is specified, then the parent process is not signaled
when the child terminates.
+.\"
+.SS The flags bit mask
.PP
.I flags
-may also be bitwise-ORed with zero or more of the following constants,
+may be bitwise-ORed with zero or more of the following constants,
in order to specify what is shared between the calling process
and the child process:
.TP