On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:23:16AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > > For that we'd also want to move fexec(ve) into the kernel space. > > I agree this would be useful, but it's a separate issue. I don't think it is. The whole point of O_EXEC is to support fexecve. Without moving it to kernel I can't see how you can make it strictly conforming to this requirement in Posix that the file descriptor must be valid for executing. Fortunately enough the kernel implementation is trivial. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
