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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index d0571af..9673563 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -758,6 +758,15 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows. These functions may be used to create and manage processes. +The various \function{exec*()} functions take a list of arguments for +the new program loaded into the process. In each case, the first of +these arguments is passed to the new program as its own name rather +than as an argument a user may have typed on a command line. For the +C programmer, this is the \code{argv[0]} passed to a program's +\cfunction{main()}. For example, \samp{os.execv('/bin/echo', ['foo', +'bar'])} will only print \samp{bar} on standard output; \samp{foo} +will seem to be ignored. + \begin{funcdesc}{abort}{} Generate a \constant{SIGABRT} signal to the current process. On |