exec.3: Note that SPARCC provides an execv() system call

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 0d531e921911c8706a178cacd1344a872cd4c72c..10f15f3dc2359974993dd55ea4709a9ad25b75f5 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/exec.3
+++ b/man3/exec.3
@@ -277,6 +277,13 @@ internally and were consequently not async-signal-safe,
 in violation of the requirements of POSIX.1.
 .\" https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19534
 This was fixed in glibc 2.24.
+.\"
+.SS Architecture-specific details
+On sparc/sparc64,
+.BR execv ()
+is provided as a system call by the kernel
+(with the prototype shown above)
+for compatibility with SunOS.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR sh (1),
 .BR execve (2),