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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-09-21 00:31:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-10-10 12:24:28 +0200 |
| commit | b97cc7ae40c5830147f5973f418cde77494b0461 (patch) | |
| tree | ffdd9efa2b80323375e75026db4c01e8776bb089 /man2 | |
| parent | 7d7dc1877f4eb48abb4d70590a04ca99ba2b57d1 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-b97cc7ae40c5830147f5973f418cde77494b0461.tar.gz | |
clone.2: Minor wording improvements
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/clone.2 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2 index 1621f06e20..2312600c8c 100644 --- a/man2/clone.2 +++ b/man2/clone.2 @@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ If .B CLONE_PIDFD is set, .BR clone () -stores a process file descriptor ("pidfd") referring to the child process at +stores a PID file descriptor referring to the child process at the location .I ptid in the parent's memory. @@ -553,15 +553,15 @@ The close-on-exec flag is set on this new file descriptor. .IP Since the .I ptid -argument is used to return the pidfd, +argument is used to return the PID file descriptor, .B CLONE_PIDFD cannot be used with .B CLONE_PARENT_SETTID. .IP It is currently not possible to use this flag together with .B CLONE_THREAD. -This means that the process identified by the pidfd will always be a -thread-group leader. +This means that the process identified by the PID file descriptor +will always be a thread-group leader. .IP For a while there was a .B CLONE_DETACHED @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ However, when passed alongside .BR CLONE_PIDFD , an error is returned. This ensures that this flag can be reused -for further pidfd features in the future. +for further PID file descriptor features in the future. .TP .BR CLONE_PTRACE " (since Linux 2.2)" If |