Thread-, Signal- and Cancellation-safety documentation

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/04/2013 04:19 PM, Rich Felker wrote:

> The clone syscall is not needed; the unshare syscall will do. I don't
> know whether it's part of glibc's interface contract for this to work,
> but as far as I can tell, pthread_create and calling unshare in the
> new thread is safe and usable with most if not all of the current
> unshare flags.

The unshare manual page talks about the process, not about the calling 
process.  Does it really apply to the thread only?  Then we should fix 
the manual page.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team