execve.2: Fix description of treatment of caught signals

Caught signals reset to their default on an execve() (not
to being ignored).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Colin Watson 2010-01-05 15:07:22 +01:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\" 2007-09-14 Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>, mtk
.\" Add text describing limits on command-line arguments + environment
.\"
.TH EXECVE 2 2009-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH EXECVE 2 2010-01-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
execve \- execute program
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ All process attributes are preserved during an
except the following:
.IP *
The dispositions of any signals that are being caught are
reset to being ignored.
reset to the default
.RB ( signal (7)).
.IP *
Any alternate signal stack is not preserved
.RB ( sigaltstack (2)).