Re: clone(2) should be clone(3)

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On Tuesday 09 April 2013 14:08:18 Peter Schiffer wrote:
> My aim here is, that when I'm opening man page in section 2, the first
> thing I'm expecting to see is syscall signature. In clone(2), it's not
> even clear that this is a library call.

err, the very first sentence of the first paragraph says it's exactly this:
	clone() creates a new process, in a manner similar to fork(2).  It is
	actually a library function layered on top of the underlying clone()
	system call, hereinafter referred to as sys_clone.  A description of
	sys_clone is given toward the end of this page.
-mike

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