Module Name: src
Committed By: kamil
Date: Wed Jun 12 12:26:24 UTC 2019
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/gen: posix_spawn.3
Log Message:
Rephrase sentence about vfork+exec in posix_spawn(3)
Try to make it less confusing.
Requested by <joerg>
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.9 -r1.10 src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3
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Index: src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3
diff -u src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3:1.9 src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3:1.10
--- src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3:1.9 Wed Jun 12 00:05:48 2019
+++ src/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn.3 Wed Jun 12 12:26:24 2019
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: posix_spawn.3,v 1.9 2019/06/12 00:05:48 kamil Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: posix_spawn.3,v 1.10 2019/06/12 12:26:24 kamil Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Schouten <e...@freebsd.org>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -315,11 +315,10 @@ had been called by the child process to
This implementation does not run
.Xr pthread_atfork 3
callbacks.
-The
-.Xr vfork 2
-and
-.Xr exec 3
-operations are implemented as a single syscall.
+.Fn posix_spawn
+on
+.Nx
+directly creates the child process without intermediant fork.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion,
.Fn posix_spawn
