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From: "Cristian Rodríguez" <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] linux: posix_spawn: return EINVAL on argc < 1
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:04:40 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPBLoAebfBNRWgrOGpv7osaHcLVMrpTa4mpX-c_x=FZAZT46mg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2201282347300.666813@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 8:49 PM Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> Errors for argc == 0 (with argv != NULL) are contrary to POSIX, which
> allows that case other than for Strictly Conforming POSIX Applications,

The case you mention as valid are rejected by BSDs.. QNX and others.
so portable applications cannot rely on this either.
.
freebsd head and openbsd -EINVAL with argc == 0 and has never allowed
argv to be NULL  (EFAULTs)

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-29  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-28 13:39 Cristian Rodríguez
2022-01-28 15:26 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-01-28 17:07   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-01-28 18:03     ` Joseph Myers
2022-01-28 23:05       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-01-28 23:26         ` Joseph Myers
2022-01-28 23:35           ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-01-28 23:49             ` Joseph Myers
2022-01-29  1:04               ` Cristian Rodríguez [this message]
2022-03-23 14:40                 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-01-28 19:08     ` Cristian Rodríguez

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