Hi, system(3) has some awkward phrasing for the case where the execution of the shell fails:
"If execution of the shell fails, system() returns the termination status for a program that terminates with a call of exit(127)." The fact that the child process after the failed execve(2) explicitly calls _exit(127) is not really useful for the programmer. I'd like to change that to "If execution of the shell fails, system() returns an exit status of 127." Alternatively, we could use the wording from FreeBSD / macOS: "A return value of 127 means the execution of the shell failed." Opinions? -Jan
