exec.3: execv(3) does not use execv(2) on sparc/sparc64

Reported-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man3/exec.3 b/man3/exec.3
index 10f15f3dc2359974993dd55ea4709a9ad25b75f5..77e5c05d11f64aaecbf91c20c2c6c1c6cf852b07 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/exec.3
+++ b/man3/exec.3
@@ -279,11 +279,16 @@ in violation of the requirements of POSIX.1.
 This was fixed in glibc 2.24.
 .\"
 .SS Architecture-specific details
-On sparc/sparc64,
+On sparc and sparc64,
 .BR execv ()
 is provided as a system call by the kernel
 (with the prototype shown above)
 for compatibility with SunOS.
+This function is
+.I not
+employed by the
+.BR execv ()
+wrapper function on those architectures.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR sh (1),
 .BR execve (2),