execve.2: Rewording to deemphasize libc5 details

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index 87391c62c219aaf73c475bc04f4ec0948d43e1ec..6806deda375ce626f3e446396e71d352d2b0173c 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\" 2007-09-14 Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>, mtk
 .\"     Add text describing limits on command-line arguments + environment
 .\"
-.TH EXECVE 2 2011-09-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH EXECVE 2 2012-05-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 execve \- execute program
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -113,9 +113,10 @@ If the executable is a dynamically linked ELF executable, the
 interpreter named in the PT_INTERP segment is used to load the needed
 shared libraries.
 This interpreter is typically
-\fI/lib/ld-linux.so.1\fP for binaries linked with the
-Linux libc 5, or \fI/lib/ld-linux.so.2\fP for binaries linked with the
-glibc 2.
+.I /lib/ld-linux.so.2
+for binaries linked with glibc 2.
+(For binaries linked with the old Linux libc5, the interpreter was typically
+.IR /lib/ld-linux.so.1 .)
 
 All process attributes are preserved during an
 .BR execve (),