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| author |   jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2012-04-11 14:32:38 +0000 |
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| committer | jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2012-04-11 14:32:38 +0000 |
| commit | 5f477bae47c053c15210423d895b80b44875aba3 (patch) | |
| tree | a1357b9f70ad9ee0124c925c8360f38044333e14 /lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3 | |
| parent | Move size == 0 check to the beginnig of copy(); ok espie@ (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-5f477bae47c053c15210423d895b80b44875aba3.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-5f477bae47c053c15210423d895b80b44875aba3.zip | |
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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3 | 22 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3 b/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3 index 38843f411b7..ee5361b31d5 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: posix_spawn.3,v 1.4 2012/04/11 09:38:45 espie Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: posix_spawn.3,v 1.5 2012/04/11 14:32:38 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2012 Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ The .Fn posix_spawnp function is similar, except it constructs the pathname from .Fa file -following usual +following the usual .Ev PATH handling rules: if file contains a slash, then it is directly used as a path. Otherwise, .Fn posix_spawnp -search every directory mentioned in +searches every directory mentioned in .Ev PATH until it finds an executable. If @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ If is not set, the default is .Dq /usr/bin:/bin . .Pp -Arguments to the new process are passed to +Arguments to the new process are passed to .Xr execve 2 as .Fa argv @@ -75,11 +75,12 @@ are altered according to .Xr posix_spawn_file_actions_init 3 , .Xr posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose 3 , .Xr posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2 3 , +and .Xr posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen 3 . .Pp The .Fa attrp -argument can be used to control signal, uid and gid handling in the +argument can be used to control signal, UID and GID handling in the child process. .Pp If @@ -88,15 +89,16 @@ is NULL, default values are used: caught signals in the parent process are set to the default value in the child process, and ignored signals stay ignored. .Pp -.Xr posix_spawnattr_setflags 3 , +See +.Xr posix_spawnattr_setflags 3 for attribute details. .Sh RETURN VALUES -Upon succesful completion, both functions return 0. +Upon successful completion, both functions return 0. If .Fa pidp -is not a NULL pointer, +is not a NULL pointer, .Li *pidp -gets set to the pid of the newly created child process. +gets set to the PID of the newly created child process. .Pp In case of an error, both functions may return .Fn fork @@ -113,8 +115,8 @@ with exit status 127. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr execve 2 , .Xr fork 2 , -.Xr posix_spawn_file_actions_init 3 , .Xr posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose 3 , +.Xr posix_spawn_file_actions_init 3 , .Xr posix_spawnattr_init 3 , .Xr posix_spawnattr_setflags 3 .Sh STANDARDS |