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2019-04-02use __strchrnul instead of strchr and strlen in execvpeFrediano Ziglio-2/+1
The result is the same but takes less code. Note that __execvpe calls getenv which calls __strchrnul so even using static output the size of the executable won't grow.
2018-09-12reduce spurious inclusion of libc.hRich Felker-1/+0
libc.h was intended to be a header for access to global libc state and related interfaces, but ended up included all over the place because it was the way to get the weak_alias macro. most of the inclusions removed here are places where weak_alias was needed. a few were recently introduced for hidden. some go all the way back to when libc.h defined CANCELPT_BEGIN and _END, and all (wrongly implemented) cancellation points had to include it. remaining spurious users are mostly callers of the LOCK/UNLOCK macros and files that use the LFS64 macro to define the awful *64 aliases. in a few places, new inclusion of libc.h is added because several internal headers no longer implicitly include libc.h. declarations for __lockfile and __unlockfile are moved from libc.h to stdio_impl.h so that the latter does not need libc.h. putting them in libc.h made no sense at all, since the macros in stdio_impl.h are needed to use them correctly anyway.
2018-02-21convert execvp error handling to switch statementRich Felker-2/+9
this is more extensible if we need to consider additional errors, and more efficient as long as the compiler does not know it can cache the result of __errno_location (a surprisingly complex issue detailed in commit a603a75a72bb469c6be4963ed1b55fabe675fe15).
2018-02-21fix execvp failing on not-dir entries in PATH.Przemyslaw Pawelczyk-1/+1
It's better to make execvp continue PATH search on ENOTDIR rather than issuing an error. Bogus entries should not render rest of PATH invalid. Maintainer's note: POSIX seems to require the search to continue like this as part of XBD 8.3 Other Environment Variables. Only errors that conclusively determine non-existence are candidates for continuing; otherwise for consistency we have to report the error.
2015-02-03make execvp continue PATH search on EACCES rather than issuing an errrorRich Felker-1/+4
the specification for execvp itself is unclear as to whether encountering a file that cannot be executed due to EACCES during the PATH search is a mandatory error condition; however, XBD 8.3's specification of the PATH environment variable clarifies that the search continues until a file with "appropriate execution permissions" is found. since it seems undesirable/erroneous to report ENOENT rather than EACCES when an early path element has a non-executable file and all later path elements lack any file by the requested name, the new code stores a flag indicating that EACCES was seen and sets errno back to EACCES in this case.
2014-04-20expose public execvpe interfaceM Farkas-Dyck-0/+3
2013-02-17consistently use the internal name __environ for environRich Felker-2/+2
patch by Jens Gustedt. previously, the intended policy was to use __environ in code that must conform to the ISO C namespace requirements, and environ elsewhere. this policy was not followed in practice anyway, making things confusing. on top of that, Jens reported that certain combinations of link-time optimization options were breaking with the inconsistent references; this seems to be a compiler or linker bug, but having it go away is a nice side effect of the changes made here.
2012-10-18fix parent-memory-clobber in posix_spawn (environ)Rich Felker-3/+10
2011-09-29fix various bugs in path and error handling in execvp/fexecveRich Felker-17/+25
2011-02-12initial check-in, version 0.5.0v0.5.0Rich Felker-0/+34