Author: Ronan Lamy <[email protected]>
Branch: follow_symlinks
Changeset: r83504:befb634cf35b
Date: 2016-03-31 21:20 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/befb634cf35b/
Log: Update execve() docstring
diff --git a/pypy/module/posix/interp_posix.py
b/pypy/module/posix/interp_posix.py
--- a/pypy/module/posix/interp_posix.py
+++ b/pypy/module/posix/interp_posix.py
@@ -1142,7 +1142,8 @@
def _exit(space, status):
os._exit(status)
-def execv(space, w_command, w_args):
+def execv(space, w_path, w_args):
+
""" execv(path, args)
Execute an executable path with arguments, replacing current process.
@@ -1150,7 +1151,7 @@
path: path of executable file
args: iterable of strings
"""
- execve(space, w_command, w_args, None)
+ execve(space, w_path, w_args, None)
def _env2interp(space, w_env):
env = {}
@@ -1160,16 +1161,20 @@
env[space.fsencode_w(w_key)] = space.fsencode_w(w_value)
return env
-def execve(space, w_command, w_args, w_env):
- """ execve(path, args, env)
+def execve(space, w_path, w_args, w_env):
+ """execve(path, args, env)
Execute a path with arguments and environment, replacing current process.
- path: path of executable file
- args: iterable of arguments
- env: dictionary of strings mapping to strings
+ path: path of executable file
+ args: tuple or list of arguments
+ env: dictionary of strings mapping to strings
+
+On some platforms, you may specify an open file descriptor for path;
+ execve will execute the program the file descriptor is open to.
+ If this functionality is unavailable, using it raises NotImplementedError.
"""
- command = space.fsencode_w(w_command)
+ command = space.fsencode_w(w_path)
try:
args_w = space.unpackiterable(w_args)
if len(args_w) < 1:
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