Re: more fexecve questions

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 06:34:11AM +0300, Jason Thorpe 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.

...by a POSIX_MISTAKE :-)


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David A. Holland
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