On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 04:03:28PM +0000, Ian Collier wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:22:45AM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > > One point that is not clear to me is, the sigaction manpage explicitly > > calls out execve, rather than the whole exec family. It seems to > > suggest that execvp (which is what mutt is using to spawn the sendmail > > process) doesn't do that. It could be a case of the man page being > > incorrectly overly specific, or just out of date... > > sigaction and execve are system calls in section 2 of the manual, > whereas execvp et al are in section 3 and are library functions - in > fact the man page says in the first paragraph that they are front-ends > for execve(2).
I knew that... once. ;-) I'm getting old, and most of the time these esoteric details don't matter, so they're easy to forget if you haven't bumped your head on them recently. That explains it. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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