[PATCH] execveat.2: Normalize notes about missing wrappers

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It's been a long time sine kernel 3.19.
There's still no glibc wrapper.

......

$ grep -rn 'execveat *(' glibc/
$

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 man2/execveat.2 | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/execveat.2 b/man2/execveat.2
index ef3606d8b..02d9c7331 100644
--- a/man2/execveat.2
+++ b/man2/execveat.2
@@ -30,10 +30,13 @@ execveat \- execute program relative to a directory file descriptor
 .nf
 .B #include <unistd.h>
 .PP
-.BI "int execveat(int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname ","
-.BI "             char *const " argv "[], char *const " envp "[],"
+.BI "int execveat(int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname ,
+.BI "             char *const " argv "[], char *const " envp [],
 .BI "             int " flags );
 .fi
+.PP
+.IR Note :
+There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .\" commit 51f39a1f0cea1cacf8c787f652f26dfee9611874
 The
@@ -160,8 +163,6 @@ is a file descriptor referring to a file other than a directory.
 .SH VERSIONS
 .BR execveat ()
 was added to Linux in kernel 3.19.
-GNU C library support is pending.
-.\" FIXME . check for glibc support in a future release
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 The
 .BR execveat ()
@@ -207,6 +208,9 @@ the natural idiom when using
 is to set the close-on-exec flag on
 .IR dirfd .
 (But see BUGS.)
+.PP
+Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
+.BR syscall (2).
 .SH BUGS
 The
 .B ENOENT
-- 
2.30.0




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