On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 16:11 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Tue 03 Jan 2012 15:25:09 +0100, a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 14:20 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Svante Signell, le Tue 03 Jan 2012 11:14:16 +0100, a écrit :
> > > > The problems are [...] a PATH setting issue in the Test-opts script.
> 
> > Without adding . to the PATH the following happens:
> > error in startup code
> > /dev/fd/3: can't read interpreter file header
> > 
> > when execing the program hello, in tunix.c:  
> > ofile = "hello"; argv = "hello"; execv(ofile, argv).
> 
> I see. Problem is that it only cures the issue for the test. The -x
> option is supposed to also work with the installed program, so I doubt
> the maintainer will accept to cripple the test into accepting -x not
> working without . in PATH.
> 
> As icont passes the right things to execv(), it rather looks like an
> issue in execv itself.

OK, but the .-path problems would only be for GNU/Hurd, and since there
are no reports of execv problems for other architectures, then execv is
broken on Hurd, and not elsewhere?




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