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diff --git a/manual/process.texi b/manual/process.texi index 45d3ed45b9..e962941503 100644 --- a/manual/process.texi +++ b/manual/process.texi @@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ file name searching as the @code{execvp} function. @end deftypefun The size of the argument list and environment list taken together must -not be greater than @code{ARG_MAX} bytes. @xref{General Limits}. In -the GNU system, the size (which compares against @code{ARG_MAX}) +not be greater than @code{ARG_MAX} bytes. @xref{General Limits}. On +@gnuhurdsystems{}, the size (which compares against @code{ARG_MAX}) includes, for each string, the number of characters in the string, plus the size of a @code{char *}, plus one, rounded up to a multiple of the size of a @code{char *}. Other systems may have somewhat different @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ usual file name errors (@pxref{File Name Errors}), the following @table @code @item E2BIG The combined size of the new program's argument list and environment -list is larger than @code{ARG_MAX} bytes. The GNU system has no +list is larger than @code{ARG_MAX} bytes. @gnuhurdsystems{} have no specific limit on the argument list size, so this error code cannot result, but you may get @code{ENOMEM} instead if the arguments are too big for available memory. @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ Pending alarms. @xref{Setting an Alarm}. @item Current working directory and root directory. @xref{Working -Directory}. In the GNU system, the root directory is not copied when +Directory}. On @gnuhurdsystems{}, the root directory is not copied when executing a setuid program; instead the system default root directory is used for the new program. |