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Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Jul 22 19:32:40 2017 +0100
[perl #131730] Fix exec PROGRAM LIST with empty LIST
This should call execvp() with an empty argv array (containing only the
terminating NULL pointer), but was instead just returning false (and not
setting $!).
Executing a program with an empty argv array is valid ISO C: it merely
requires argc to be nonnegative and argv[argc] to be NULL. POSIX states
that that argv[0] "should point to a filename string that is associated
with the process being started", but "should" only applies to
applications claiming strict POSIX conformance. Perl does not, and
certainly should not impose it on perl programs.
This also requires handling the case where both PROGRAM and LIST are
empty, to avoid calling execvp(NULL, â¦), which _is_ invalid. I've made
it return ENOENT, which it the error POSIX specifies for execvp("", â¦).
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