Pádraig Brady wrote:
> In general if one was to address that issue it would be best to
> do at the libc level rather than every app that might invoke exec..()

Modernizations at the libc level are sometimes blocked by one of these
two arguments:
  - "The standards say ..."
  - "Some enterprise application may depend on it"

Even outright bug fixes are sometimes blocked by such an argument [1][2].

Therefore sometimes, the applications have to modernize their
behaviour one by one.

Bruno

[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2023-March/146133.html
[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30200#c17





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