[PATCHv5 0/3] syscalls,x86: Add execveat() system call

2014-10-22 Thread David Drysdale
This patch set adds execveat(2) for x86, and is derived from Meredydd Luff's patch from Sept 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/528). The primary aim of adding an execveat syscall is to allow an implementation of fexecve(3) that does not rely on the /proc filesystem. The current glibc version

[PATCHv5 0/3] syscalls,x86: Add execveat() system call

2014-10-22 Thread David Drysdale
This patch set adds execveat(2) for x86, and is derived from Meredydd Luff's patch from Sept 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/528). The primary aim of adding an execveat syscall is to allow an implementation of fexecve(3) that does not rely on the /proc filesystem. The current glibc version