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Re: execlp/execvp/execvpe behavior change in glibc 2.24?
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:01:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: execlp/execvp/execvpe behavior change in glibc 2.24?
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On 11/20/2017 04:54 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
Review it I also agree this seems beneficial and POSIX states
this special case is implementation-defined. I also do not oppose
if this might characterize as compat issue and we should go back
to old behaviour. Thoughts?
I would leave it as it is now. The compatibility impact does not seem
to be extreme, otherwise we'd already received a bug report.
We should update the relevant NEWS files retroactively, though.
Thanks,
Florian