From 72e4973f03c65b416ceb8f57595eeb0180facb02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nikola=20Forr=C3=B3?= Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:24:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] execve.2: clarify signal sent to the process on late failure --- man-pages/man2/execve.2 | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man-pages/man2/execve.2 b/man-pages/man2/execve.2 index 7aaa64b..6d86cc4 100644 --- a/man-pages/man2/execve.2 +++ b/man-pages/man2/execve.2 @@ -585,7 +585,10 @@ 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 -- 2.26.2