Re: [PATCH] execve.2: point to exec(3) early

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Hi наб!

On 5/25/22 21:30, наб wrote:
Most people actually want exec(3) (or one of its aliases);
the minutiae are a separate, rarer, concern, and execve(2) hijacks
man execve from all the other exec(3) aliases
(similarly to exec(1posix), but it's at least obvious in that case that
  you got the wrong page)

Reported-in: https://twitter.com/NireBryce/status/1529538043039850499
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Thanks!

Alex

---
  man2/execve.2 | 8 ++++++++
  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index 0d9582492..28c175132 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ The
  .I envp
  array must be terminated by a NULL pointer.
  .PP
+This manual page describes the Linux system call in detail;
+for an overview of the nomenclature and the many, often preferable,
+standardised variants of this function provided by libc,
+including ones that search the
+.B PATH
+environment variable, see
+.BR exec (3).
+.PP
  The argument vector and environment can be accessed by the
  new program's main function, when it is defined as:
  .PP

--
Alejandro Colomar
<http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>

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