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-rw-r--r--man2/clone.28
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2
index 55fae566d0..a90c802300 100644
--- a/man2/clone.2
+++ b/man2/clone.2
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ in order to specify what is shared between the calling process
and the child process:
.TP
.BR CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID " (since Linux 2.5.49)"
-Clear (zero) the child thread ID at the location
+Clear (zero) the child thread ID at the location pointed to by
.I child_tid
in child memory when the child exits, and do a wakeup on the futex
at that address.
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ system call.
This is used by threading libraries.
.TP
.BR CLONE_CHILD_SETTID " (since Linux 2.5.49)"
-Store the child thread ID at the location
+Store the child thread ID at the location pointed to by
.I child_tid
in the child's memory.
The store operation completes before
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ is set, then the parent of the calling process, rather than the
calling process itself, will be signaled.
.TP
.BR CLONE_PARENT_SETTID " (since Linux 2.5.49)"
-Store the child thread ID at the location
+Store the child thread ID at the location pointed to by
.I parent_tid
in the parent's memory.
(In Linux 2.5.32-2.5.48 there was a flag
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ If
is set,
.BR clone ()
stores a PID file descriptor referring to the child process at
-the location
+the location pointed to by
.I parent_tid
in the parent's memory.
The close-on-exec flag is set on this new file descriptor.