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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/exec.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/exec.3 | 23 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/exec.3 b/lib/libc/gen/exec.3 index c8ad7bada88..52ac332ee9a 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/exec.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/exec.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: exec.3,v 1.22 2013/06/05 03:39:22 tedu Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: exec.3,v 1.23 2013/07/17 05:42:11 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 5 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 17 2013 $ .Dt EXEC 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -237,3 +237,22 @@ conform to .St -p1003.1-88 . .Fn execvpe is a GNU extension. +.Sh HISTORY +The functions +.Fn execl +and +.Fn execv +first appeared in +.At v2 . +A predecessor to +.Fn execvp , +.Fn pexec , +first appeared in the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX). +The functions +.Fn execle , +.Fn execlp , +.Fn execve , +and +.Fn execvp +first appeared in +.At v7 . |