diff -urN man-pages-3.50.orig/man2/clone.2 man-pages-3.50/man2/clone.2 --- man-pages-3.50.orig/man2/clone.2 2013-03-15 18:17:35.000000000 +1100 +++ man-pages-3.50/man2/clone.2 2013-03-28 21:50:04.745932956 +1100 @@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ .BR fcntl (2) .B F_SETFD operation), the other process is also affected. +If a process sharing a file descriptor table calls +.BR execve (2), +its file descriptor table is duplicated (unshared). If .B CLONE_FILES diff -urN man-pages-3.50.orig/man2/execve.2 man-pages-3.50/man2/execve.2 --- man-pages-3.50.orig/man2/execve.2 2013-03-15 18:17:35.000000000 +1100 +++ man-pages-3.50/man2/execve.2 2013-03-28 22:02:56.793844616 +1100 @@ -204,6 +204,11 @@ .B SIGCHLD (see .BR clone (2)). +.IP * +The file descriptor table is unshared, undoing the effect of the +.B CLONE_FILES +flag of +.BR clone (2). .PP Note the following further points: .IP * 3