From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13054: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for execve. Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:48:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <50BADB13.1040301@cs.ucla.edu> <50BB9B27.6070105@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354474127 13780 80.91.229.3 (2 Dec 2012 18:48:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13054@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 02 19:49:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TfEb5-0008RU-Jv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:48:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50466 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfEat-0007A4-Vf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:48:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50644) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfEar-00079y-QE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:48:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfEaq-0000PB-KU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40147) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TfEaq-0000P5-EX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TfEd3-0006aB-VJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:51:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Andreas Schwab Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13054 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13054-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13054.135447422725263 (code B ref 13054); Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13054) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Dec 2012 18:50:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50398 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TfEcV-0006ZO-2H for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:50:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:49006) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TfEcS-0006ZF-7Q for 13054@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:50:25 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3YDyyX1MsTz3hhwJ; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:48:03 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: 14h0N7SCBAW2b6zC0Gq+vfhVyxn6ZlHw0THBKQv+udg= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-99-137.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.99.137]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3YDyyW1XYLzbbjT; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:48:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id DC011CA2A2; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:48:02 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I have accepted Provolone into my life! In-Reply-To: <50BB9B27.6070105@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:17:11 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67797 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > The patched version uses execve, the unpatched version doesn't. > Long ago, it made sense to avoid execve, because some pre-POSIX > platforms lacked execve. execvp is just a wrapper around execve, so avoiding the latter doesn't make sense. There must be some other reason why execvp is used. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."