You know, my own thinking made me figure this one out: % cat exec.c
#include <unistd.h>
#include <paths.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]) {
char *const execargv[] = { _PATH_BSHELL, NULL };
execve(_PATH_BSHELL,execargv,NULL);
return 0;
}
% cc -fwritable-strings -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings exec.c
%
There you go. By default strings are read-only, and indeed smart
compilers use that to compress them and do other nifty tricks. However,
in this case you really want a string to be "char *", eg writable.
So, tell the compiler to do that with "-fwritable-strings", poof,
strings are now "char *", the cast away the cost problem goes away,
"-Wcast-qual" works fine.
It always seemed to me a lot of things included -fwritable-strings for
no good reason, maybe this is part of the reason. :)
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