https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214871 Bug ID: 214871 Summary: Man(3) system outdated Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: mikekearney85@xxxxxxxxxxx Regression: No During my recent university work, I have noticed the man (3) page for system (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/system.3.html) states: The system() library function uses fork(2) to create a child process that executes the shell command specified in command using execl(3) as follows: execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", command, (char *) NULL); On reading the source code for system, this caused me some confusion. Eventually I found a commit from 2018 (https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=5fb7fc96350575c9adb1316833e48ca11553be49), in which fork and exec were replaced by posix_spawn. The explains why I could not aline the man page with the source code. -- You may reply to this email to add a comment. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
