Formerly, in this case an error was returned but the pid was also returned
to the application, requiring the application to use unspecified behaviour
(the returned pid in error situations) to avoid zombies.
Now, reap the zombie and do not return the pid.
MFC after: 2 weeks
As noted in Austin Group issue #370 (an interpretation has been issued),
failing posix_spawn() because an fd specified with
posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose() is not open is unnecessarily harsh, and
there are existing implementations that do not fail posix_spawn() for this
reason.
Reviewed by: ed
MFC after: 10 days
Adding exevpe() has caused some ports to break. Even though execvpe() is
a useful routine, it does not conform to any standards.
This patch is a little bit different from the patch sent to the mailing
list. I forgot to remove execvpe from the Symbol.map (which does not
seem to miscompile libc, though).
Reviewed by: davidxu
Approved by: philip
can be used as replacements for exec/fork in a lot of cases. This
change also added execvpe() which allows environment variable
PATH to be used for searching executable file, it is used for
implementing posix_spawnp().
PR: standards/122051
