Re: [RFC 08/19] exec: add API specification for execve
From: Florian Weimer
Date: Mon Jun 16 2025 - 17:40:50 EST
* Sasha Levin:
> + KAPI_RETURN("long", "Does not return on success; returns -1 on error")
> + .type = KAPI_TYPE_INT,
> + .check_type = KAPI_RETURN_ERROR_CHECK,
> + KAPI_RETURN_END
Is the -1 part correct?
Many later errors during execve are not recoverable and result in execve
succeeding (nominally) and a fatal signal being delivered to the process
instead. Not sure if the description covers that.
What about the effect of unblocking a parent thread that has vfork'ed?
Thanks,
Florian