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authorJared Yanovich <jaredy@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-07-22 02:47:29 +0000
committerJared Yanovich <jaredy@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-07-22 02:47:29 +0000
commiteb9f6e8ee64276b4108de4b65b85d662ea6c832a (patch)
tree9b03aed09ada6c10194f9a593e446cbab8eb3d9a /lib
parent7b57000879fd70136228b6fb2dbbda9f32c2e70d (diff)
exec* no longer sleep on ETXTBUSY; ok jmc
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/exec.39
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