2009-07-18 21:26:56 +0200, Nicolas François: > Ping Sorry, forgot to reply to your earlier email.
> Any opinion on this? > > My current preference would be to close the bug. > It could also be tagged wontfix: I'm not sure the feature is that useful, > and switching to execlp/execvp/system could break existing behaviors. What kind of existing behavior would that break when using execvp instead of execve? It's more a matter of consistence to me. But it's true it's no big deal. [...] > > Are there other su / login implementations which behave that way? [...] AFAICS, the "login" from util-linux (derived from BSD) and the one from NetBSD and OpenBSD at least do use the exec?p variants (from a quick look at there source code). The OpenSolaris one seems to be checking for that case (pw_shell being a shell script) explicitely and treats it specially: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/login/login.c#2507 Best regards, Stephane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org