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authorPhilip Guenther <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-05-30 04:38:44 +0000
committerPhilip Guenther <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-05-30 04:38:44 +0000
commitc0e90cd6aebb7e7003fa1c8b5cb3ea54bb34ee07 (patch)
tree44ae4da02aab893da8197ad3cfce433cc9b208da /lib
parent0024ec498b47c20c57f284f0fba297953fe6faf7 (diff)
A program is the thing you run; a process is an instance of something
running ok millert@ sobrado@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/execve.28
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/execve.2 b/lib/libc/sys/execve.2
index 17a783aebd2..4e8e215ad7c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/execve.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/execve.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: execve.2,v 1.40 2014/01/21 03:15:45 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: execve.2,v 1.41 2014/05/30 04:38:43 guenther Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: execve.2,v 1.9 1995/02/27 12:32:25 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)execve.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 1/24/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 30 2014 $
.Dt EXECVE 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ The
.Fn exect
function is equivalent to
.Fn execve
-with the additional property that it executes the file with the program
+with the additional property that it executes the file with the process
tracing facilities enabled (see
.Xr ptrace 2 ) .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
@@ -334,4 +334,4 @@ to a non-superuser, but is executed when the real
.Em uid
is
.Dq root ,
-then the program has some of the powers of a superuser as well.
+then the process has some of the powers of a superuser as well.