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authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>2017-09-06 17:29:29 +0200
committerAndreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>2017-09-19 16:19:14 +0200
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Use execveat syscall in fexecve (bug 22134)
By using execveat we no longer depend on /proc.  The execveat syscall was
introduced in 3.19, except for a few late comers.
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+2017-09-19  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
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+	[BZ #22134]
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fexecve.c (fexecve) [__NR_execveat]: Try
+	execveat first.
+	[!__ASSUME_EXECVEAT]: Fall back to /proc if execveat is
+	unimplemented.
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h (__ASSUME_EXECVEAT)
+	[__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >= 0x031300]: Define.
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/kernel-features.h
+	(__ASSUME_EXECVEAT) [__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION < 0x040200]: Undef.
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/kernel-features.h
+	(__ASSUME_EXECVEAT) [__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION < 0x040000]: Undef.
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/kernel-features.h
+	(__ASSUME_EXECVEAT) [__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION < 0x040000]: Undef.
+	* posix/Makefile (tests): Add tst-fexecve.
+	* posix/tst-fexecve.c: New file.
+
 2017-09-19  Wilco Dijkstra  <wdijkstr@arm.com>
 
 	* benchtests/Makefile: Add logf benchmark.