Re: very simple tcpd replacement

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi>]

Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:

> #!/bin/perl
> print "$0\n";

The script in my first post tried this too, and the result was
"/dev/fd/3" when the argv[0] passed to exec was not a name of the
script.

When the original argv[0] is a name of the script file, it is
indeed saved and made available to the interpreter.  But the tcpd
calling convention wants the filename of the real server in
argv[0].  It cannot be a filename of tcpd.

I still think this is a mistake in the design of tcpd.