1 /* Copyright (C) 2006 by Paolo Giarrusso - modified from glibc' execvp.c.
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30 #include "um_malloc.h"
33 #define um_kmalloc malloc
37 /* Execute FILE, searching in the `PATH' environment variable if it contains
38 no slashes, with arguments ARGV and environment from `environ'. */
39 int execvp_noalloc(char *buf, const char *file, char *const argv[])
45 if (strchr (file, '/') != NULL) {
46 /* Don't search when it contains a slash. */
52 char *path = getenv("PATH");
54 path = ":/bin:/usr/bin";
56 len = strlen(file) + 1;
57 pathlen = strlen(path);
58 /* Copy the file name at the top. */
59 name = memcpy(buf + pathlen + 1, file, len);
60 /* And add the slash. */
69 //Let's avoid this GNU extension.
70 //p = strchrnul (path, ':');
71 p = strchr(path, ':');
73 p = strchr(path, '\0');
76 /* Two adjacent colons, or a colon at the beginning or the end
77 of `PATH' means to search the current directory. */
80 startp = memcpy(name - (p - path), path, p - path);
82 /* Try to execute this name. If it works, execv will not return. */
86 if (errno == ENOEXEC) {
92 /* Record the we got a `Permission denied' error. If we end
93 up finding no executable we can use, we want to diagnose
94 that we did find one but were denied access. */
99 /* Those errors indicate the file is missing or not executable
100 by us, in which case we want to just try the next path
104 /* Some strange filesystems like AFS return even
105 stranger error numbers. They cannot reasonably mean
106 anything else so ignore those, too. */
108 /* We won't go searching for the shell
109 * if it is not executable - the Linux
110 * kernel already handles this enough,
115 /* Some other error means we found an executable file, but
116 something went wrong executing it; return the error to our
120 } while (*p++ != '\0');
122 /* We tried every element and none of them worked. */
124 /* At least one failure was due to permissions, so report that
129 /* Return the error from the last attempt (probably ENOENT). */
133 int main(int argc, char**argv)
139 fprintf(stderr, "Not enough arguments\n");
143 if (ret = execvp_noalloc(buf, argv[0], argv)) {
145 perror("execvp_noalloc");