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Re: more fexecve questions



> On Sep 11, 2019, at 4:37 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> The implementation I posted requires O_EXEC because this is the only way
> to set FEXEC which is part of the check_exec() tests. Of course we can
> elide this test and not require it in the fd case. It just seems nicely
> symmetric to me the way it is now.

It may be "nicely symmetrical", but it's not a correct implementation.  O_RDONLY (without O_EXEC) is explicitly allowed.

-- thorpej



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