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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:17:59 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Issue with using execlp() from a 32 bit binary on IA64
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Brian Sumner <bls@sgi.com> writes:

|> Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
|> >=20
|> > Hi,
|> > The RAID group has a problem with using execlp function from a 32bit b=
inary.
|>=20
|> 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.

execle has already been fixed more than one year ago, but nobody looked at
execl and execlp so far :-/.  I have now checked in a fix.

Thanks, Andreas.

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