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Re: man-pages-4.06 released
- From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>
- To: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz at port70 dot net>, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>, linux-man <linux-man at vger dot kernel dot org>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
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- Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 10:37:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: man-pages-4.06 released
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On 12/05/16 01:18, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 12 May 2016 01:32, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>> * Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> [2016-05-11 08:51:14 +0200]:
>>> clone.2
>>> Michael Kerrisk [Colin Ian King]
>>> ERRORS: add EINVAL for improperly aligned 'child_stack' value
>>
>> glibc is able to align the stack
>> maybe it should (e.g. musl does).
>
> see the original thread for discussion:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg10237.html
glibc can provide consistent behaviour even
if the kernel does not, so kernel side does
not matter much.
i have no strong opinion here, fixing it in
the man page is ok, but i can provide an
aarch64 clone.S patch.