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diff --git a/manual/process.texi b/manual/process.texi index 2f5ba65af5..d382df5df1 100644 --- a/manual/process.texi +++ b/manual/process.texi @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ primitive functions to do each step individually instead. * Creating a Process:: How to fork a child process. * Executing a File:: How to make a process execute another program. * Process Completion:: How to tell when a child process has completed. -* Process Completion Status:: How to interpret the status value +* Process Completion Status:: How to interpret the status value returned from a child process. * BSD Wait Functions:: More functions, for backward compatibility. * Process Creation Example:: A complete example program. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ it doesn't give you much control over the details: you have to wait until the subprogram terminates before you can do anything else. @comment stdlib.h -@comment ANSI +@comment ISO @deftypefun int system (const char *@var{command}) @pindex sh This function executes @var{command} as a shell command. In the GNU C @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ The child doesn't inherit alarms set by the parent process. The set of pending signals (@pxref{Delivery of Signal}) for the child process is cleared. (The child process inherits its mask of blocked signals and signal actions from the parent process.) -@end itemize +@end itemize @comment unistd.h @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ passed as the last such argument. @deftypefun int execve (const char *@var{filename}, char *const @var{argv}@t{[]}, char *const @var{env}@t{[]}) This is similar to @code{execv}, but permits you to specify the environment for the new program explicitly as the @var{env} argument. This should -be an array of strings in the same format as for the @code{environ} +be an array of strings in the same format as for the @code{environ} variable; see @ref{Environment Access}. @end deftypefun @@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ argument using the equivalent of @samp{sh -c @var{command}}. #define SHELL "/bin/sh" @group -int +int my_system (const char *command) @{ int status; @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ example. Remember that the first @code{argv} argument supplied to the program represents the name of the program being executed. That is why, in the call to @code{execl}, @code{SHELL} is supplied once to name the program -to execute and a second time to supply a value for @code{argv[0]}. +to execute and a second time to supply a value for @code{argv[0]}. The @code{execl} call in the child process doesn't return if it is successful. If it fails, you must do something to make the child |