From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] manual: Document the fexecve function
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:16:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ees6g101.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALxWeYo1iHa=bG0smUCGKZ5cO_dAY=1k+Uj-4EMyi3AEhnNeNQ@mail.gmail.com> (Michael Kerrisk's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:00:00 +0200")
* Michael Kerrisk:
>> +@deftypefun int fexecve (int @var{fd}, char *const @var{argv}@t{[]}, char *const @var{env}@t{[]})
>> +@standards{POSIX.1, unistd.h}
>> +@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}}
>> +This is similar to @code{execve}, but instead identifying the progam
>
> s/instead/instead of/
> s/progam/program/
Thanks. Here's what I'm going to push.
8<------------------------------------------------------------------8<
Subject: manual: Fix typos in the fexecve description
Reported by Michael Kerrisk.
-----
manual/process.texi | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/manual/process.texi b/manual/process.texi
index b20ad26cbf..54e65f76c6 100644
--- a/manual/process.texi
+++ b/manual/process.texi
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ variable; see @ref{Environment Access}.
@deftypefun int fexecve (int @var{fd}, char *const @var{argv}@t{[]}, char *const @var{env}@t{[]})
@standards{POSIX.1, unistd.h}
@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}}
-This is similar to @code{execve}, but instead identifying the progam
+This is similar to @code{execve}, but instead of identifying the program
executable by its pathname, the file descriptor @var{fd} is used. The
descriptor must have been opened with the @code{O_RDONLY} flag or (on
Linux) the @code{O_PATH} flag.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-29 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-27 9:39 Florian Weimer
2020-04-28 17:25 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-29 6:00 ` Michael Kerrisk
2020-04-29 8:16 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
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