I'm trying to make some nommu-friendly busybox-like tools, which means using vfork() instead of fork(). This means that after I fork I have to exec in the child to unblock the parent, and if I want to exec my current executable I have to find out where it lives so I can feed the path to exec(). This is nontrivial.
Worse, it's not always possible. If chroot() has happened since the program started, there may not _be_ a path to my current executable available from this process's current or root directories. What would be really nice is if I could feed a NULL path to exec on NOMMU systems, and have that mean "re-exec the current executable". I can't think of a way to do this without kernel support. Any opinions on whether this is worthwhile? A nommu-friendly daemonize() is another use for this, by the way... Rob -- "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
