Re: [PATCH] [RFC] syscalls,x86: Add execveat() system call (v2)

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/09/2012 12:19 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On 08/01/2012 03:10 PM, Meredydd Luff wrote:
>>  
>> +#ifndef sys_execveat
>> +asmlinkage long sys_execveat(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
>> +			     const char __user *const __user *argv,
>> +			     const char __user *const __user *envp,
>> +			     struct pt_regs *regs);
>> +#endif
> 
> Should this have a flags argument for future extension?
> 

Not just for future extension.  We already have a NOFOLLOW flag for the
-at functions, and that would be applicable here.  CLOEXEC, obviously not ;)

	-hpa



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