Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 10:47:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen popen.c Message-ID: <199810111747.KAA04968@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199810110309.LAA18511@spinner.netplex.com.au> <199810110906.CAA02043@apollo.backplane.com> <19981011193603.A28135@nagual.pp.ru> <19981011192754.34404@follo.net>
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:exec() isn't the only problem. There are programs calling e.g. wanr()
:on failure of the exec(). We have to do an audit WRT which programs
:are abusing vfork(), anyway...
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:Eivind.
True. We can't fix every programmer's bozoness, but we can fix the more
professional programmer's expectations. If the programmer knows
enough to call _exit() rather then exit(), they should know enough not
to make random library calls... but even though execl() isn't a system
call I think most programmers would expect it to work inside a vfork().
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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