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Re: man-pages-4.06 released


On 12 May 2016 10:37, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> 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.

if you want to post a kernel patch, that'd be great
-mike

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