Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:53:53 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [OT] 'volatile' in userspace |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>What's wrong with _exit(exec() == -1 ? 0 : errno); >>and picking up the status with wait(2) ? >> > > The exec'd application may return regular error codes, which would > interfere. IIRC /usr/sbin/useradd has different exit codes depending on > what failed (providing some option, failure to create account, failure to > create home dir, etc.). Now if you exit(errno) instead, you have an > overlap.
You're right. Maybe you could return -ve or with a high bit set, but I guess you may not know what the app will return.
But I don't see how the volatile or pipe solutions are any better though: it would seem that both result in undefined behaviour according to my vfork man page. At least the wait() solution is defined (and workable, if you know what the target might return).
> And your code is somewhat wrong. Given that exec() would stand for > execve(someprogram_and_args_here), if it returned -1 you would return 0, > indicating success. Can't be. And if exec() does not return -1, which it > never should, you return errno, which never reaches anyone.
Yeah, thinko.
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