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Subject: Re: [9front] thread(2) procexec
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That looks better, probably best to document that they do return on error.

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:40 PM Alex Musolino <alex@musolino.id.au> wrote:
>
> I think the following would be better, as it more closely resembles
> the DIAGNOSTICS section from exec(2).
>
> diff -r 3e677a96125d sys/man/2/thread
> --- a/sys/man/2/thread  Tue Dec 10 15:13:44 2019 +1030
> +++ b/sys/man/2/thread  Thu Dec 19 15:07:34 2019 +1030
> @@ -332,7 +332,8 @@
>  on success,
>  they replace the calling thread (which must be the only thread in its proc)
>  and invoke the external program, never returning.
> -On error, they return \-1.
> +On error, they return and set
> +.IR errstr .
>  If
>  .I cpid
>  is not null, the pid of the invoked program
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alex Musolino



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