From d45105d9d745a8d1e6920527426483d1530b8194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:34:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] eventfd.2: Clarified close-on-exec behavior

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
---
 man2/eventfd.2 | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/eventfd.2 b/man2/eventfd.2
index 88ca50dd7..e4ee1b679 100644
--- a/man2/eventfd.2
+++ b/man2/eventfd.2
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" 2008-10-10, mtk: describe eventfd2(), and EFD_NONBLOCK and EFD_CLOEXEC
 .\"
-.TH EVENTFD 2 2009-01-26 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH EVENTFD 2 2010-08-29 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 eventfd \- create a file descriptor for event notification
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ eventfd object.
 File descriptors created by
 .BR eventfd ()
 are preserved across
-.BR execve (2).
+.BR execve (2),
+unless the close-on-exec flag has been set.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 On success,
 .BR eventfd ()