From: Jann Horn <jann-XZ1E9jl8jIdeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
To: Steven Stewart-Gallus
<sstewartgallus00-QKvm5KDIoDa7M0a00MdBSQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: execve is not atomic, what is the exit state of the process when execve fails after throwing away the original process image?
Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 19:45:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140503174510.GA7720@debjann.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <faa2c0e82f8a8.536300c8-BTv7Ps/Sm75C8prJL3GQQw@public.gmane.org>
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On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:19:52AM +0000, Steven Stewart-Gallus wrote:
> execve is not atomic, what is the exit state of the process when
> execve fails after throwing away the original process image?
See http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/fs/binfmt_elf.c#L740 or
so – as far as I know, the kernel sends a SIGKILL. Does that help?
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2014-05-02 2:19 execve is not atomic, what is the exit state of the process when execve fails after throwing away the original process image? Steven Stewart-Gallus
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2014-05-03 17:45 ` Jann Horn [this message]
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2014-05-03 22:18 ` Steven Stewart-Gallus
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2014-05-04 19:27 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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2014-05-04 20:15 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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