Re: $ORIGIN

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:04:44PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
 > > No, it isn't; you can get one by seeding the input to namei with
 > > getcwd. The problem is that we didn't want to do that on every exec
 > > and (if done on every exec) that it would cause problems in cases
 > > where getcwd fails.
 > 
 > Aren't the majority of exec's done with a pathname?  Why not cache
 > that name if the image has DF_ORIGIN set?

That's done anyway. It's only execs via a relative path that don't
work.

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David A. Holland
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