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From: Jann Horn <jann-XZ1E9jl8jIdeoWH0uzbU5w@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
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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 =E2=80=93 as far as I know, the kernel sends a SIGKILL. Does that help?

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