Re: [PATCH v2 10/15] exec: Remove do_execve_file

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jun 30 2020 - 09:38:17 EST


On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 07:14:23AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > FYI, this clashes badly with my exec rework. I'd suggest you
> > drop everything touching exec here for now, and I can then
> > add the final file based exec removal to the end of my series.
>
> I have looked and I haven't even seen any exec work. Where can it be
> found?
>
> I have working and cleaning up exec for what 3 cycles now. There is
> still quite a ways to go before it becomes possible to fix some of the
> deep problems in exec. Removing all of these broken exec special cases
> is quite frankly the entire point of this patchset.
>
> Sight unseen I suggest you send me your exec work and I can merge it
> into my branch if we are going to conflict badly.

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