1/* Copyright (C) 1991-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
3
4 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
6 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
7 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
8
9 The GNU C Library 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 GNU
12 Lesser General Public License for more details.
13
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
15 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
16 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17
18#include <unistd.h>
19#include <stdarg.h>
20#include <errno.h>
21#include <sys/param.h>
22#include <stddef.h>
23
24/* Execute PATH with all arguments after PATH until a NULL pointer,
25 and the argument after that for environment. */
26int
27execle (const char *path, const char *arg, ...)
28{
29 ptrdiff_t argc;
30 va_list ap;
31 va_start (ap, arg);
32 for (argc = 1; va_arg (ap, const char *); argc++)
33 {
34 if (argc == INT_MAX)
35 {
36 va_end (ap);
37 errno = E2BIG;
38 return -1;
39 }
40 }
41 va_end (ap);
42
43 /* Avoid dynamic memory allocation due two main issues:
44 1. The function should be async-signal-safe and a running on a signal
45 handler with a fail outcome might lead to malloc bad state.
46 2. It might be used in a vfork/clone(VFORK) scenario where using
47 malloc also might lead to internal bad state. */
48 ptrdiff_t i;
49 char *argv[argc + 1];
50 char **envp;
51 va_start (ap, arg);
52 argv[0] = (char *) arg;
53 for (i = 1; i <= argc; i++)
54 argv[i] = va_arg (ap, char *);
55 envp = va_arg (ap, char **);
56 va_end (ap);
57
58 return __execve (path: path, argv: argv, envp: envp);
59}
60libc_hidden_def (execle)
61

source code of glibc/posix/execle.c