[RFC v3 09/17] execveat.2: Use syscall(SYS_...); for system calls without a wrapper

From: Alejandro Colomar
Date: Sat Mar 13 2021 - 14:28:20 EST


Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man2/execveat.2 | 13 ++++---------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/execveat.2 b/man2/execveat.2
index 499bf1b57..0d23cb39b 100644
--- a/man2/execveat.2
+++ b/man2/execveat.2
@@ -28,15 +28,13 @@
execveat \- execute program relative to a directory file descriptor
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
+.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" " /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */"
.B #include <unistd.h>
.PP
-.BI "int execveat(int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname ,
-.BI " const char *const " argv "[], const char *const " envp [],
-.BI " int " flags );
+.BI "int syscall(SYS_execveat, int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname ,
+.BI " const char *const " argv "[], const char *const " envp [],
+.BI " int " flags );
.fi
-.PP
-.IR Note :
-There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
.\" FIXME . See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27364
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" commit 51f39a1f0cea1cacf8c787f652f26dfee9611874
@@ -209,9 +207,6 @@ the natural idiom when using
is to set the close-on-exec flag on
.IR dirfd .
(But see BUGS.)
-.PP
-Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
-.BR syscall (2).
.SH BUGS
The
.B ENOENT
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