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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2014-05-15 13:07:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2014-05-15 13:09:05 -0700 |
| commit | 61640bceda024b0112779f4345c728c75c531cc4 (patch) | |
| tree | ef44009866bfe5f64b836eb85ec44fee02748fb8 /doc/posix-functions/execvp.texi | |
| parent | 24fe73d433ad4da81eb21013b8b1ec6d3b787dfc (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-61640bceda024b0112779f4345c728c75c531cc4.tar.gz | |
doc: document exec* = spawn+exit bug with non-Cygwin Windows platforms
Problem reported by Eli Zaretskii in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2014-05/msg00118.html
* doc/posix-functions/execl.texi (execl):
* doc/posix-functions/execle.texi (execle):
* doc/posix-functions/execlp.texi (execlp):
* doc/posix-functions/execv.texi (execv):
* doc/posix-functions/execve.texi (execve):
* doc/posix-functions/execvp.texi (execvp):
Mention spawn+exit problem on non-Cygwin Windows platforms.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/posix-functions/execvp.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/execvp.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/execvp.texi b/doc/posix-functions/execvp.texi index dbd9258fd1..da93271441 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/execvp.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/execvp.texi @@ -15,4 +15,8 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @item On some platforms, a script without executable permission is still run: Cygwin 1.5.x. +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function operates by spawning +and then by exiting the current process, which means the current +process's parent may incorrectly proceed as if its child had exited. @end itemize |