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authorKevin Burke <kev@inburke.com>2016-09-13 23:31:07 -0700
committerRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2016-10-12 15:02:57 +0000
commit8d1d9292ff024f6c7586d27edd2c84c1ca8d9bf5 (patch)
tree112c44522faf7bc1109e5e218d3aac6d7d75c403
parent68998433556a5c9ee0f7d8d544ffb006a724adaf (diff)
downloadgo-git-8d1d9292ff024f6c7586d27edd2c84c1ca8d9bf5.tar.gz
syscall: document that Exec wraps execve(2)
Change-Id: I611511434f37c75f77c22f61f469108243bc0101 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/29121 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
-rw-r--r--src/syscall/exec_unix.go2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/syscall/exec_unix.go b/src/syscall/exec_unix.go
index 9fd8cf4dba..af59c5d00a 100644
--- a/src/syscall/exec_unix.go
+++ b/src/syscall/exec_unix.go
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ func StartProcess(argv0 string, argv []string, attr *ProcAttr) (pid int, handle
return pid, 0, err
}
-// Ordinary exec.
+// Exec invokes the execve(2) system call.
func Exec(argv0 string, argv []string, envv []string) (err error) {
argv0p, err := BytePtrFromString(argv0)
if err != nil {