1 /* execvpe() function: Execute a program, replacing the current process.
2 Copyright (C) 2020-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4 This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
6 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
7 License, or (at your option) any later version.
8
9 This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
13
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
16
17 /* Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2020. */
18
19 /* Don't use __attribute__ __nonnull__ in this compilation unit. Otherwise gcc
20 may optimize away the program == NULL and argv == NULL tests below. */
21 #define _GL_ARG_NONNULL(params)
22
23 #include <config.h>
24
25 /* Specification. */
26 #include <unistd.h>
27
28 #include <errno.h>
29 #include <stdbool.h>
30 #include <stdlib.h>
31
32 #include "findprog.h"
33
34 int
35 execvpe (const char *program, char * const *argv, char * const *env)
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36 {
37 if (program == NULL
38 || argv == NULL
39 /* The callee is not expecting a NULL argv[0]. */
40 || argv[0] == NULL
41 || env == NULL)
42 {
43 errno = EINVAL;
44 return -1;
45 }
46
47 const char *resolved_progname =
48 find_in_given_path (program, getenv ("PATH"), NULL, true);
49 if (resolved_progname == NULL)
50 return -1;
51
52 /* Invoke execve. */
53 execve (resolved_progname, argv, env);
54
55 /* If execve returned, it must have failed. */
56 if (resolved_progname != program)
57 free ((char *) resolved_progname);
58 return -1;
59 }