Hello Colin, On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Using man-pages 3.23 on Ubuntu lucid, I recently had cause to look up > what happens to signal handlers across execve(). The execve(2) manual > page contains the following sentence: > > The dispositions of any signals that are being caught are reset to > being ignored. > > As it happened, though, the signal I'm interested in right now defaults > to "terminate process", so I found this statement ambiguous, and looked > up POSIX, which says "Signals set to be caught by the calling process > image shall be set to the default action in the new process image". > > How about the following patch? Obviously correct, and applied for 2.34. Thanks, Michael > > diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2 > index 0ea50db..11bec18 100644 > --- a/man2/execve.2 > +++ b/man2/execve.2 > @@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ All process attributes are preserved during an > except the following: > .IP * > The dispositions of any signals that are being caught are > -reset to being ignored. > +reset to the default action > +.RB ( signal (7)). > .IP * > Any alternate signal stack is not preserved > .RB ( sigaltstack (2)). > > Thanks, > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx] > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
