From 46aa14ee8e44f31af20613092a16f37da332e8f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:52:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] exec.3: Note that SPARCC provides an execv() system call Reported-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man3/exec.3 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/man3/exec.3 b/man3/exec.3 index 0d531e921..10f15f3dc 100644 --- a/man3/exec.3 +++ b/man3/exec.3 @@ -277,6 +277,13 @@ internally and were consequently not async-signal-safe, in violation of the requirements of POSIX.1. .\" https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19534 This was fixed in glibc 2.24. +.\" +.SS Architecture-specific details +On sparc/sparc64, +.BR execv () +is provided as a system call by the kernel +(with the prototype shown above) +for compatibility with SunOS. .SH SEE ALSO .BR sh (1), .BR execve (2),