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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-06 07:50:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-06 10:07:04 +0200 |
| commit | f3c29937e678c3baf89b138d822e6edd46af7009 (patch) | |
| tree | c56a07f7ae9b80b576a7de5e64f7f42f7c22c128 | |
| parent | 22a2e0553b085cf9c10e79c6e94a904b451b0fda (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-f3c29937e678c3baf89b138d822e6edd46af7009.tar.gz | |
prctl.2: Note semantics of IO_FLUSHER state with respect to fork(2) and execve(2)
Reported-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/prctl.2 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2 index a6c7f04352..e321d8457d 100644 --- a/man2/prctl.2 +++ b/man2/prctl.2 @@ -1401,6 +1401,11 @@ and .IR arg5 must be zero. .IP +The IO_FLUSHER state is inherited by a child process created via +.BR fork (2) +and is preserved across +.BR execve (2). +.IP Examples of IO_FLUSHER applications are FUSE daemons, SCSI device emulation daemons, and daemons that perform error handling like multipath path recovery applications. |