remove argc, argv; arguments will be passed via environment variables

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/kernel-interfaces/app-entry.txt b/documentation/kernel-interfaces/app-entry.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a09d22..0000000
--- a/documentation/kernel-interfaces/app-entry.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-on entry, the stack is set up, and all registers other than rsp are set to 0.
-the ARGC environment variable holds the number of arguments to main.
-the ARGV0, ARGV1, ARGV2, etc environment variables hold those arguments.
diff --git a/documentation/kernel-interfaces/syscalls.txt b/documentation/kernel-interfaces/syscalls.txt
index f7dddba..de00451 100644
--- a/documentation/kernel-interfaces/syscalls.txt
+++ b/documentation/kernel-interfaces/syscalls.txt
@@ -157,7 +157,10 @@ start process:
     qword: stream handle here
     qword: new stream handle in child
       new handle must be < 65536
-  any gifted streams must not have threads waiting to read from our end
+  any gifted streams must not have threads waiting to read from our end.
+  any environment variables in the current process whose names do not begin
+  with an underscore are also set in the child process. the environment
+  variables in the process start info override any with the same name.
 
 end this process:
   rax in: 17