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From: Brian Sumner <bls@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Issue with using execlp() from a 32 bit binary on IA64
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:11:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805177@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805175@msgid-missing>

Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> The RAID group has a problem with using execlp function from a 32bit binary.

A quick glance at the source indicates a bug in glibc 2.2.3 execl
and execlp if you pass more than 1024 arguments.  Strangely, the
execle function is OK.  (Compare the last argument to the memcpy
calls in posix/execl.c and posix/execle.c)

Brian Sumner


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-13 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-13 18:14 [Linux-ia64] Issue with using execlp() from a 32 bit binary on IA64 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-09-13 19:11 ` Brian Sumner [this message]
2001-09-14 10:17 ` Andreas Schwab

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