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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-04-02 21:16:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-05 10:26:32 +0100 |
| commit | 53562047851414d4aa4ffceeba534eac84a70fe5 (patch) | |
| tree | 254ca06408a18b6e1cebe92afb48059ee3892394 | |
| parent | 7b5e3ad522e05df4a3a0bfb5afbcf640a0a67e47 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-53562047851414d4aa4ffceeba534eac84a70fe5.tar.gz | |
posix_spawn.3: Add note on "posix_fspawn" functionality
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/posix_spawn.3 | 12 |
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diff --git a/man3/posix_spawn.3 b/man3/posix_spawn.3 index b60cdee607..0a0cc0eb8c 100644 --- a/man3/posix_spawn.3 +++ b/man3/posix_spawn.3 @@ -528,6 +528,18 @@ On glibc, .\" Tested on glibc 2.12 fork handlers are called only if the child is created using .BR fork (2). + +There is no "posix_fspawn" function (i.e., a function that is to +.BR posix_spawn () +as +.BR fexecve (3) +is to +.BR execve (2)). +However, this functionality can be obtained by specifying the +.I path +argument as one of the files in the caller's +.IR /proc/self/fd +directory. .SH VERSIONS .\" FIXME all of these pages should have a VERSIONS section The |