cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen exec.3

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:11:28PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030617192918.S31778 at gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
> >On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> >> phk         2003/06/17 01:57:37 PDT
> >>
> >>   FreeBSD src repository
> >>
> >>   Modified files:
> >>     lib/libc/gen         exec.3
> >>   Log:
> >>   Fix the execle(3) synopsis to include the environment pointer.
> >
> >This just breaks the execle(3) synopsis again.  Synopsises for functions
> >are C prototypes.  The synopsis for execle() wasn't a prototype in
> >rev.1.1, but was fixed in rev.1.5.
> 
> I disagree: we don't run manual pages through C-compilers, we run
> them through brains, and they should be optimized for that rather
> than for the compilers that never see them.
> 
I have a solution that addresses both concerns, and it's also how
this is prototyped in POSIX.1-2001, which is nice as well:

	int
	execle(const char *path, const char *arg0, ...
	    /*, (char *)0, char *const envp[]*/);


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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