Reinstate text on CLONE_DETACHED, and add a few words.

diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2
index 8f19eee5862660f1dce72146a499ebb254f5b081..132166f5132ba62db9bc6a791ca2a0cd506ba76d 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/clone.2
+++ b/man2/clone.2
@@ -369,9 +369,6 @@ To make the remainder of the discussion of
 .B CLONE_THREAD
 more readable, the term "thread" is used to refer to the
 processes within a thread group.
-.\" For a while there was CLONE_DETACHED (introduced in 2.5.32):
-.\" parent wants no child-exit signal. In 2.6.2 the need to give this
-.\" together with CLONE_THREAD disappeared.
 
 Thread groups were a feature added in Linux 2.4 to support the
 POSIX threads notion of a set of threads that share a single PID.
@@ -628,6 +625,16 @@ flag implied the
 .B CLONE_PARENT 
 flag (as in kernel 2.6).
 
+For a while there was 
+.B CLONE_DETACHED 
+(introduced in 2.5.32):
+parent wants no child-exit signal. 
+In 2.6.2 the need to give this
+together with 
+.B CLONE_THREAD 
+disappeared.
+This flag is still defined, but has no effect.
+
 On x86,
 .BR clone ()
 should not be called through vsyscall, but directly through