exec* no longer sleep on ETXTBUSY; ok jmc

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/exec.3 b/lib/libc/gen/exec.3
index febeed692b0..12207316ea6 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/exec.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/exec.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: exec.3,v 1.17 2005/02/25 03:12:43 cloder Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: exec.3,v 1.18 2005/07/22 02:47:28 jaredy Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -155,13 +155,6 @@ returned
 these functions will execute the shell with the path of
 the file as its first argument.
 (If this attempt fails, no further searching is done.)
-.Pp
-If the file is currently busy (the attempted
-.Xr execve
-returned
-.Er ETXTBUSY ) ,
-these functions will sleep for several seconds,
-periodically re-attempting to execute the file.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 If any of the
 .Nm exec