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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-09-12 06:07:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-09-12 06:07:32 +0100 |
| commit | ce2ca8cc4f5643a577428a49086c91bf96b08352 (patch) | |
| tree | 73fe2ae904d52dcdef62b18f261f859df8313ed7 | |
| parent | 8b4be846c762935e70e9395510bb2e99bc46a772 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-ce2ca8cc4f5643a577428a49086c91bf96b08352.tar.gz | |
execve.2: Minor clarification
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/execve.2 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2 index 342efa53db..d0d6d1af67 100644 --- a/man2/execve.2 +++ b/man2/execve.2 @@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ starting with a line of the form: For details of the latter case, see "Interpreter scripts" below. \fIargv\fP is an array of argument strings passed to the new program. -By convention, the first of these strings should contain the filename -associated with the file being executed. +By convention, the first of these strings (i.e., +.IR argv[0] ) +should contain the filename associated with the file being executed. \fIenvp\fP is an array of strings, conventionally of the form \fBkey=value\fP, which are passed as environment to the new program. Both \fIargv\fP and \fIenvp\fP must be terminated by a null pointer. |