It's been 6 years since execveat(2) was added to the kernel, and there's still no glibc wrapper. Let's document the kernel syscall prototype. I reported a bug against glibc requesting a wrapper; when glibc adds the wrapper, this commit should probably be reverted. ...... .../linux$ grep_syscall execveat fs/exec.c:2062: SYSCALL_DEFINE5(execveat, int, fd, const char __user *, filename, const char __user *const __user *, argv, const char __user *const __user *, envp, int, flags) fs/exec.c:2083: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(execveat, int, fd, const char __user *, filename, const compat_uptr_t __user *, argv, const compat_uptr_t __user *, envp, int, flags) include/linux/compat.h:815: asmlinkage long compat_sys_execveat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, const compat_uptr_t __user *argv, const compat_uptr_t __user *envp, int flags); include/linux/syscalls.h:980: asmlinkage long sys_execveat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, const char __user *const __user *argv, const char __user *const __user *envp, int flags); .../linux$ function grep_syscall() { if ! [ -v 1 ]; then >&2 echo "Usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} <syscall>"; return ${EX_USAGE}; fi find * -type f \ |grep '\.c$' \ |sort -V \ |xargs pcregrep -Mn "(?s)^\w*SYSCALL_DEFINE.\(${1},.*?\)" \ |sed -E 's/^[^:]+:[0-9]+:/&\n/'; find * -type f \ |grep '\.[ch]$' \ |sort -V \ |xargs pcregrep -Mn "(?s)^asmlinkage\s+[\w\s]+\**sys_${1}\s*\(.*?\)" \ |sed -E 's/^[^:]+:[0-9]+:/&\n/'; } Glibc bug: <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27364> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> --- man2/execveat.2 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/execveat.2 b/man2/execveat.2 index 02d9c7331..d1ce4bee1 100644 --- a/man2/execveat.2 +++ b/man2/execveat.2 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ execveat \- execute program relative to a directory file descriptor .B #include <unistd.h> .PP .BI "int execveat(int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname , -.BI " char *const " argv "[], char *const " envp [], +.BI " const char *const " argv "[], const char *const " envp [], .BI " int " flags ); .fi .PP -- 2.30.0