Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 07:40:02 -0800 (PST)
From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev" <timon@memphis.mephi.ru>
To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/34483: wrong execv() call in amd for ${mount} and ${unmount} if mount type:=program in amd.map
Message-ID: <200202021540.g12Fe2175061@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/34483; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev" <timon@memphis.mephi.ru>
To: roam@ringlet.net, timon@memphis.mephi.ru
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/34483: wrong execv() call in amd for ${mount} and ${unmount} if mount type:=program in amd.map
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:36:55 +0300 (MSK)
> From roam@straylight.ringlet.net Sat Feb 2 18:21:17 2002
> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:00:18 +0200
> From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
> To: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev" <timon@memphis.mephi.ru>
> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: bin/34483: wrong execv() call in amd for ${mount} and ${unmount} if mount type:=program in amd.map
>
> Actually, I now believe Erez to be correct - I no longer think this is a bug.
> What he is trying to say is that you should provide argv[0] along with
> the other arguments, *after* the path to the program. This allows you
> to execute a program, giving it an argv[0] different from the filename
> of the executable file - exactly the same way that inetd.conf's syntax
> allows you to do the same. This is done to minimize the need for
> hardlinks, as you say; even without a hardlink, you are able to invoke,
> say, /sbin/mount as either 'mount' or 'mount_ffs' or 'mount_msdosfs' or
> whatever else you like.
Yeah, I found description of this in _info am-utils_... So this pr should be closed, or
something
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