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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use execveat syscall in fexecve
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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:27:00 -0000
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* Andreas Schwab:

> By using execveat we no longer depend on /proc.  The execveat syscall was
> introduced in 3.19, except for a few late comers.

Ideally, this should have a test that executing =E2=80=9C/bin/sh -c true=E2=
=80=9D
works, both with an O_PATH descriptor and a regular descriptor.

The implementation itself (including the AT_EMPTY_PATH flag) and the
__ASSUME_EXECVEAT conditions look good to me.