On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
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.
does this even make sense (as a general purpose function)? if the executable
isn't available in your path it's likly that any config files it needs are not
available either.
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?
for something like busybox/toolbox where you have different functions based on
the name used to execute the program, which name would you use?
David Lang
A nommu-friendly daemonize() is another use for this, by the way...
Rob
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