Re: argv0 revisited...

DervishD (raul@pleyades.net)
Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:20:35 +0100


Hi Rogier :)

> ln init klogd
> ln init slog
> ln init into

Won't work, we fork, don't exec. I will need to rewrite a lot of
code just for converting the fork-scheme to a fork+exec-scheme.
Moreover, this will introduce vulnerabilities... It's not safe from
init to just exec 'klogd'. It will need full paths.

Thanks for answering :)

Raśl
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