Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 04/10] uml: make execvp safe for our usage

[Jeff Dike]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:27:11PM +0200, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso wrote:
> Reimplement execvp for our purposes - after we call fork() it is 
> fundamentally unsafe to use the kernel allocator - current is not valid 
> there.

This is horriby ugly.  Can we instead do something different like
check out the paths of helpers at early boot, before the kernel is
running, save them, and simply execve them later?

At that point, something like running "which foo" would be fine by me.

				Jeff
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