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List:       linux-man
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] execve.2: clarify signal sent to the process on late failure
From:       "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-04-29 19:51:14
Message-ID: 64d7c699-1940-bd17-99fa-24d4d7aa18b2 () gmail ! com
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Hello Nikola,

On 4/29/20 5:30 PM, Nikola Forró wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com>

Thanks. patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  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
> 


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Michael Kerrisk
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