(split) LDP: Update original to v3.37.

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / fork.2

diff --git a/original/man2/fork.2 b/original/man2/fork.2
index 49aeab6..4089fb9 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/fork.2
+++ b/original/man2/fork.2
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 .\"     Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ
 .\"    parent and child.
 .\"
-.TH FORK 2 2009-04-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FORK 2 2012-02-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fork \- create a child process
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -205,6 +205,14 @@ wrapper that is provided as part of the
 NPTL threading implementation invokes
 .BR clone (2)
 with flags that provide the same effect as the traditional system call.
+(A call to
+.BR fork ()
+is equivalent to a call to
+.BR clone (2)
+specifying
+.I flags
+as just
+.BR SIGCHLD .)
 The glibc wrapper invokes any fork handlers that have been
 established using
 .BR pthread_atfork (3).