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From: "Cristian Rodríguez" <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] linux: posix_spawn: return EINVAL on argc < 1
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 20:35:06 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPBLoAf4u==WbWc8AWBFSbjXvAvH=zGHyPAR6_SRGhviq-vuBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2201282325130.666813@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 8:26 PM Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
> > We can add a note on deprecated and removed features, but I am not sure
> > if would make any difference now that kernels will changes the semantic
> > anyway and it will cause compatibility issues anyway.
>
> I haven't seen any discussions of this on linux-api, so the kernel
> discussion elsewhere might not be taking any compatibility issues properly
> into account.

but making things in libc calling execve potentially  with argc == 0
error out or behave like having argv = {"", NULL} shouldn't break
anything right ?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-28 23:35 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 [this message]
2022-01-28 23:49             ` Joseph Myers
2022-01-29  1:04               ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-03-23 14:40                 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-01-28 19:08     ` Cristian Rodríguez

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