> Seth Arnold <mailto:seth.arn...@canonical.com> > Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:10 PM > > Which systems go through /bin/sh for the exec*() family of functions? i don't have an exhaustive list. my friends at $dayjob told me to use debian, so i am. i see this:
http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=execv&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+7.0+wheezy&format=html&locale=en which contains this text: > If the header of a file isn't recognized (the attempted > execve(2) > <http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=execve&sektion=2&apropos=0&manpath=Debian+7.0+wheezy&locale=> > failed with the error ENOEXEC), these functions will execute the shell > (/bin/sh) with the path of the file as its first argument. (If this > attempt fails, no further searching is done.) i now see that this only applies to execlp() and execvp(), not to the entire family. (was reading in a terminal window before.) -- Paul Vixie _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
