LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / rexec.3

diff --git a/original/man3/rexec.3 b/original/man3/rexec.3
index 145b789..c2792a1 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/rexec.3
+++ b/original/man3/rexec.3
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
 .\"     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(BSD_4_CLAUSE_UCB)
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 .\" are met:
@@ -28,27 +29,28 @@
 .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)rexec.3     8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libcompat/4.3/rexec.3,v 1.12 2004/07/02 23:52:14 ru Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Taken from FreeBSD 5.4; not checked against Linux reality (mtk)
 .\"
-.\" 2007-12-08, mtk, Converted from mdoc to man macros
+.\" 2013-06-21, mtk, Converted from mdoc to man macros
 .\"
-.TH REXEC 3 2012-04-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH REXEC 3 2014-05-28 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-rexec, rfexec_af \- return stream to a remote command
+rexec, rexec_af \- return stream to a remote command
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .BR "#define _BSD_SOURCE" "             /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
 .B #include <netdb.h>
 .sp
-.BI "int rexec(char **" ahost ", int " inport ", char *" user ", "
-.BI "          char *" passwd ", char *" cmd ", int *" fd2p );
+.BI "int rexec(char **" ahost ", int " inport ", const char *" user ", "
+.BI "          const char *" passwd ", const char *" cmd ", int *" fd2p );
 .sp
-.BI "int rexec_af(char **" ahost ", int " inport ", char *" user ", "
-.BI "             char *" passwd ", char *" cmd ", int *" fd2p ,
+.BI "int rexec_af(char **" ahost ", int " inport ", const char *" user ", "
+.BI "             const char *" passwd ", const char *" cmd ", int *" fd2p ,
 .BI "             sa_family_t " af  );
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -63,14 +65,14 @@ looks up the host
 using
 .BR gethostbyname (3),
 returning \-1 if the host does not exist.
-Otherwise
+Otherwise,
 .IR *ahost
 is set to the standard name of the host.
 If a username and password are both specified, then these
 are used to authenticate to the foreign host; otherwise
-the environment and then the user's
+the environment and then the
 .I .netrc
-file in his
+file in user's
 home directory are searched for appropriate information.
 If all this fails, the user is prompted for the information.
 .PP
@@ -137,7 +139,14 @@ or
 The
 .BR rexec_af ()
 function was added to glibc in version 2.2.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR rexec ()
+and
+.BR rexec_af ()
+functions are not thread-safe.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 These functions are not in POSIX.1-2001.
 The
 .BR rexec ()
@@ -145,7 +154,7 @@ function first appeared in
 4.2BSD, and is present on the BSDs, Solaris, and many other systems.
 The
 .BR rexec_af ()
-function is more recent, nad less widespread.
+function is more recent, and less widespread.
 .SH BUGS
 The
 .BR rexec ()
@@ -158,3 +167,12 @@ for explanations.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR rcmd (3),
 .BR rexecd (8)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.