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| author | Ted Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-07-02 08:38:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Ted Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-07-02 08:38:06 +0000 |
| commit | e40b28859b028a41d9e552ec85061c4fd651df62 (patch) | |
| tree | f0ddf82edd00def276f6c4dd501075434fbbdb7f /lib/libc | |
| parent | fba1c86c9e5c094372ca5eee676e79b86477b976 (diff) | |
the arrays are null terminated, but the strings are only nul terminated.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/execve.2 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/execve.2 b/lib/libc/sys/execve.2 index 6b85cb29792..4784bc321f1 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/execve.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/execve.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: execve.2,v 1.23 2003/06/02 20:18:39 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: execve.2,v 1.24 2003/07/02 08:38:05 tedu Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: execve.2,v 1.9 1995/02/27 12:32:25 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ file, is left unchanged. The argument .Fa argv is a pointer to a null-terminated array of -character pointers to null-terminated character strings. +character pointers to nul-terminated character strings. These strings construct the argument list to be made available to the new process. At least one argument must be present in the array; @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ the name of the executed program (for example, the last component of The argument .Fa envp is also a pointer to a null-terminated array of -character pointers to null-terminated strings. +character pointers to nul-terminated strings. A pointer to this array is normally stored in the global variable .Va environ . These strings pass information to the |