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bug#13054: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for execve.
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#13054: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for execve. |
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Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:48:02 +0100 |
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Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> The patched version uses execve, the unpatched version doesn't.
> Long ago, it made sense to avoid execve, because some pre-POSIX
> platforms lacked execve.
execvp is just a wrapper around execve, so avoiding the latter doesn't
make sense. There must be some other reason why execvp is used.
Andreas.
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bug#13054: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for execve., Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/02