Re: [RFC 08/19] exec: add API specification for execve

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* Sasha Levin:

> +	KAPI_RETURN("long", "Does not return on success; returns -1 on error")
> +		.type = KAPI_TYPE_INT,
> +		.check_type = KAPI_RETURN_ERROR_CHECK,
> +	KAPI_RETURN_END

Is the -1 part correct?

Many later errors during execve are not recoverable and result in execve
succeeding (nominally) and a fatal signal being delivered to the process
instead.  Not sure if the description covers that.

What about the effect of unblocking a parent thread that has vfork'ed?

Thanks,
Florian





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