Hi Timo,

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote:
> Package: manpages-dev
> Version: 3.01-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> To prevent other people from wasting their time with fexecve(), I suggest
> adding something like this to the description:
>
> Linux implements fexecve() by executing the binary via proc filesystem,
> so /proc needs to be mounted and available during the fexecve() call.

I can see some merit in adding a sentence like this, but:

> And for ERRORS:
>
> ENOENT: /proc filesystem not available.
>
> ref: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/140

surely the error is ENOSYS (see the glibc source), which is already
documented in the man page?

Cheers,

Michael

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