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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>2021-11-02 10:55:53 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>2021-11-02 10:55:53 +0100
commitf11536908a2e6581607a7057ed082fa3b72b0467 (patch)
tree235206bc10bd27a6aa3952bfc0f0ad276da2b487
parent58f638a2861ef3d9bdbc4fd10e441bf47d380a7e (diff)
system.3: It doesn't call fork anymore
Reported-by: Michael Kearney <mikekearney85@hotmail.com> Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <zatrazz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man3/system.34
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3
index 880fe93c6..bde45ed82 100644
--- a/man3/system.3
+++ b/man3/system.3
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ system \- execute a shell command
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR system ()
-library function uses
+library function behaves as if it used
.BR fork (2)
-to create a child process that executes the shell command specified in
+to create a child process that executed the shell command specified in
.I command
using
.BR execl (3)