Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 11:26:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <mlsr@mega.ist.utl.pt>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where should I send this ? Message-ID: <20000611112640.B87130@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000611000439.C233@parish> References: <20000610191445.A4FFC11DF12@mega.ist.utl.pt> <20000611000439.C233@parish>
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On Sunday, 11 June 2000 at 0:04:39 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 08:14:45PM +0100, Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos wrote: >> >> Hello ! >> >> There appears to be a mistake in the manpage of rfork(2) >> in the description for the flag RFMEM used to create a new process >> sharing the address space of the first we may read the following words: >> "The stack segment is always split" >> >> Well this seems to mean that the kernel creates a new stack for the >> new process (in the case rfork(RFPROC | RFMEM)) but this appears not >> to be the case... apparently the user must create the stack for the >> new process himself, and if this is not done the new process is obviously >> terminated with SIGSEGV... >> >> if this is true (which I am obviously not sure, it is possible that >> something escapes me...) what should read in the manpage would be >> "Unless RFPPWAIT is also specified, a new stack segment must be >> created by the child process immediatly after the call." >> >> Tell me something about this... >> If there is a better mailing list for the discution of this, tell me > > freebsd-docs is the list you want or, if you have the fix, submit a PR > using send-pr(1). Hmm. First, it's FreeBSD-doc, not FreeBSD-docs. But they're not the ones you want; the man pages are part of the source tree, and the Doc Project isn't responsible for them. send-pr(1) is the right solution, even if you don't have a fix (though obviously we'd prefer to have the fix :-) Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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