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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] syscalls,x86: Add execveat() system call (v2)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:29:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50241DA9.7070108@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50240D47.7050906@amacapital.net>

On 08/09/2012 12:19 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On 08/01/2012 03:10 PM, Meredydd Luff wrote:
>>  
>> +#ifndef sys_execveat
>> +asmlinkage long sys_execveat(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
>> +			     const char __user *const __user *argv,
>> +			     const char __user *const __user *envp,
>> +			     struct pt_regs *regs);
>> +#endif
> 
> Should this have a flags argument for future extension?
> 

Not just for future extension.  We already have a NOFOLLOW flag for the
-at functions, and that would be applicable here.  CLOEXEC, obviously not ;)

	-hpa




      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-09 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-01 22:10 [PATCH] [RFC] syscalls,x86: Add execveat() system call (v2) Meredydd Luff
2012-08-01 22:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-01 23:09   ` Meredydd Luff
2012-08-01 23:30     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-01 23:32       ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]         ` <CAD=T17GaEMU_PDDvaJ9GVRUtzTZ069AN2yTuX6=rVo6jNO+6oA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-08-02  0:52           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-02  6:55       ` Al Viro
2012-08-02  9:14         ` Meredydd Luff
2012-08-02 10:30           ` Al Viro
2012-08-02 10:51             ` Meredydd Luff
2012-08-09 19:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-08-09 20:29   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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