From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fececve man page
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:36:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a7418f3-8c05-ff91-1635-5c448ea304ec@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <044d4f18-fe49-7e25-ddae-844ce6a50b7a@truelite.it>
On 8/21/19 6:44 PM, Simone Piccardi wrote:
>
> In http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fexecve.3.html in the reported
> errors there are only EINVAL and ENOSYS but in the BUGS section is cited
> also ENOENT (I suppose coming from execveat) for trying to use a script.
>
> Furthermore I think that ENOSYS should be cited as present only when
> fexecve is not implemented using execveat.
Thanks, Simone. I've applied the following diff.
Cheers,
Michael
diff --git a/man3/fexecve.3 b/man3/fexecve.3
index 25cf049dc..73b086881 100644
--- a/man3/fexecve.3
+++ b/man3/fexecve.3
@@ -86,8 +86,18 @@ is NULL, or
.I envp
is NULL.
.TP
+.B ENOENT
+The close-on-exec flag is set on
+.IR fd ,
+and
+.I fd
+refers to a script.
+See BUGS.
+.TP
.B ENOSYS
-The
+The kernel does not provide the
+.BR execveat (2)
+system call, and the
.I /proc
filesystem could not be accessed.
.SH VERSIONS
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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