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Date:      Wed,  4 Jul 2012 22:43:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Peter Wullinger <bsd@dhke.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/169651: fexecve() and hashbang-scripts
Message-ID:  <20120704204354.7F33CA3@kaliope.home>
Resent-Message-ID: <201207042050.q64Ko4FY012693@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         169651
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       fexecve() and hashbang-scripts
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul 04 20:50:04 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Wullinger
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD kaliope 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #13 r237164: Sat Jun 16 18:31:08 CEST 2012 src@kaliope:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KALIOPE_MONO amd64


	
>Description:

The fexecve() does not seem to work as described.

I was able identify to cases
1) opening the file descriptor passwd to 
   fexecve() with O_EXEC does not work.
   (see test case 1), below.
2) passing a readonly file descriptor
   to fexecve() with the target file
   being an interpreted script with
   a #! marker causes error message

   cannot open /dev/fd/n: No such file or directory

   to be raised from the target interpreter.

>How-To-Repeat:

Test case 1)
extern char **environ;

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int fd = open("/bin/ls" , O_EXEC);
    fexecve(fd, argv, environ);
    perror("fexecve");
}

Yields
fexecve: Bad file descriptor

Changing O_EXEC to O_RDONLY works.

Test case 2)

extern char **environ;

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int fd = open("/usr/bin/man" , O_RDONLY); 
	fexecve(fd, argv, environ);
	perror("fexecve");
}

Yields:
cannot open /dev/fd/3: No such file or directory

(/usr/bin/man is a shell script)

>Fix:

no fix known yet.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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