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diff --git a/doc/info/exec-as.texinfo b/doc/info/exec-as.texinfo deleted file mode 100644 index 69f8850..0000000 --- a/doc/info/exec-as.texinfo +++ /dev/null @@ -1,108 +0,0 @@ -\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- - -@c %**start of header -@setfilename exec-as.info -@settitle exec-as -@afourpaper -@documentencoding UTF-8 -@documentlanguage en -@finalout -@c %**end of header - - -@dircategory Miscellaneous -@direntry -* exec-as: (exec-as). exec with explicit argv[0] -@end direntry - - -@copying -Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Mattias Andrée - -@quotation -Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no -Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover -Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled -``GNU Free Documentation License''. -@end quotation -@end copying - -@ifnottex -@node Top -@top exec-as -- exec with explicit argv[0] -@insertcopying -@end ifnottex - -@titlepage -@title exec-as -@subtitle exec with explicit @code{argv[0]} -@author by Mattias Andrée (maandree) - -@page -@vskip 0pt plus 1filll -@insertcopying -@page -@end titlepage - -@contents - - - -@menu -* Overview:: Brief overview of @command{exec-as}. -* Invoking:: Executing @command{exec-as}. -* GNU Free Documentation License:: Copying and sharing this manual. -@end menu - - - -@node Overview -@chapter Overview -@command{exec-as} shall spawn a program and -lets the user specify a value for @code{argv[0]} -explicitly. - -@command{exec-as} is intended as a shell -command. It makes no since to use it from most -programming languages. - -Since this is not a builtin function, it cannot -be used as @command{exec} without arguments to -set file descriptors. - -Because this is not a builtin function, running -@command{exec-as} would normally do an fork–exec -rather than just an exec. To just perform an -exec, you need to use @command{exec} too: -@code{exec exec-as} - - - -@node Invoking -@chapter Invoking - -At least one argument are required. The first -argument is the file to run. This can either -be an absolute path, an explicitly relative path, -or a file in @env{$PATH}. The second argument -is the name of the process, @code{argv[0]}. -The following arguments are the rest in of the -values in @code{argv}, often called the -command line arguments. - -@command{'exec-as bash -bash'} will run the first -program in @env{$PATH} named @command{bash}, and -set @code{argv[0]} to @code{-bash} (making it a -login shell.) You can add addition argument as -needed. - - - -@node GNU Free Documentation License -@appendix GNU Free Documentation License -@include fdl.texinfo - -@bye - |