Commit 1cbf6057 authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Added explanation of the use of the first program argument passed to the

exec*() family of functions.
parent e7c4f88b
......@@ -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
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