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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:15:58 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen exec.3
Message-ID:  <20030617111558.GC70321@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <26822.1055844688@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20030617192918.S31778@gamplex.bde.org> <26822.1055844688@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:11:28PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030617192918.S31778@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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
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,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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