man-pages-4.06 released

Szabolcs Nagy szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Thu May 12 09:38:00 GMT 2016


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.



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