Subject: bin/2737: execle called with missing argument in shutdown
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/09/1996 00:34:40
>Number:         2737
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       execle called with missing argument in shutdown
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep  8 15:50:02 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Lennart Augustsson
>Organization:
CS Dept, Chalmers
>Release:        1.2_BETA
>Environment:
System: NetBSD calvin.cs.chalmers.se 1.2_BETA NetBSD 1.2_BETA (CALVIN) #82: Sun Sep 8 19:29:30 MET DST 1996 augustss@calvin.cs.chalmers.se:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CALVIN i386


>Description:
	/sbin/shutdown calls reboot (or halt) with an execle to actually
	shut down the system.  If you pass the `-n' to shutdown the
	call will look like this
		execle(_PATH_REBOOT, "reboot", "-l", "-n", 0);
	This is wrong.  The man page for execle states that after
	the 0 that terminates the argument list there should be an
	environment pointer.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Look at the source.

>Fix:
	Change the two (2) calls to look like this
		execle(_PATH_XXX, "xxx", "-l", "-n", 0, 0);
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: