From: "Nikola Forró" <nforro@redhat.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] execve.2: clarify signal sent to the process on late failure
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:30:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3c73e5e62c5981f3e21de0febe3d651bc95a6d8.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com>
---
man2/execve.2 | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index ab5843840..109c0d57d 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -640,7 +640,10 @@ failure may occur past the point of no return:
the original executable image has been torn down,
but the new image could not be completely built.
In such cases, the kernel kills the process with a
-.BR SIGKILL
+.\" commit 19d860a140beac48a1377f179e693abe86a9dac9
+.BR SIGSEGV
+.RB ( SIGKILL
+until Linux 3.17)
signal.
.\"
.SS Interpreter scripts
--
2.26.2
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2020-04-29 15:30 Nikola Forró [this message]
2020-04-29 19:51 ` [PATCH] execve.2: clarify signal sent to the process on late failure Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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