PING: RFR(s): (new approach) 8223777: In posix_spawn mode, failing to exec() jspawnhelper does not result in an error
Martin Buchholz
martinrb at google.com
Wed Jun 5 14:58:44 UTC 2019
On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 7:51 AM David Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
> If we're talking just Linux though, has this *ever* been an issue? You've
> been able to call execve on a shell script since at least 2002 as far as I
> can tell from a quick search. Maybe this should be conditional so that it
> can be excluded on known-good platforms?
>
I can't remember for sure, but IIRC it was necessary in 2005.
Also, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
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