Hello Jürgen, On 3/5/19 1:19 PM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann wrote: > Hi, > > this is an improvement proposal for the EXECVE(2) and EXEC(3) man pages. > > I am using release 3.54 of the Linux man-pages project, but the current > version 4.16 shows the same. I am running Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca. > > > The man page EXEC(3) contains a paragraph named "Special semantics > for execlp() and execvp() which explains to some extent how the "file" > argument of these function is handled. There are some inconsistencies > and possible improvements between the EXECVE(2) and the EXEC(3) > man pages: > > * The execve() function seems to behave exactly as execlp*(), execvp(), > and execvpe() do, but the but the paragraph mentioned above > only occurs in EXEC(3) but not in EXEC VE(2). [ This has caused a bit > of confusion on the gnu-prog-discuss mailing list lately because one > side was only aware of EXECVE(2) but not of EXEC(3) ] Can you give more detail here please (e.g., quote exactly the sentences in exec(3) that you also think apply to execve(2)). > * The title of the paragraph in EXEC(3) should also mention execvpe() > which is mentioned below the title but not in the title. Fixed. > * The first argument(s) of these functions should be aligned: EXECVE(2) > uses "filename" while "EXEC(3) uses "file". True. I've fixed them to consistently use 'pathname' > * It would be useful if EXECVE(2) and EXEC(3) would refer to eac> other under "SEE ALSO". Well, exec(3) does already refer to execve(2). But I've now fixes exec(3). Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
