From 1a1217698ce64e4301ba3888cf1bee50f3d3c87a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Schwartz Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:45:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more pcntl docs git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@152421 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1 --- reference/pcntl/functions/pcntl-exec.xml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/reference/pcntl/functions/pcntl-exec.xml b/reference/pcntl/functions/pcntl-exec.xml index 620d5e0865..cf15ef15ab 100644 --- a/reference/pcntl/functions/pcntl-exec.xml +++ b/reference/pcntl/functions/pcntl-exec.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + @@ -17,7 +17,26 @@ arrayenvs - &warn.undocumented.func; + pcntl_exec executes the program + path with arguments args. + path must be the path to a binary executable or a + script with a valid path pointing to an executable in the shebang ( + #!/usr/local/bin/perl for example) as the first line. See your system's + man execve(2) page for additional information. + + + args is an array of argument strings passed to the + program. + + + envs is an array of strings which are passed as + environment to the program. The array is in the format of name => value, + the key being the name of the environmental variable and the value being + the value of that variable. + + + pcntl_exec returns &false; on error and does not + return on success.