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Re: Bugfixes for icinga-core



On Sun, Sep  5, 2010 at 10:21:41 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:

> 0003-modify-execv-to-execvp-accepting-4096-cmd-args-for-b.patch,
> 0004-execvp-searches-in-PATH-too-like-popen-and-returns-i.patch:
> 1.0.2 included a new heuristic to detect if a check could be executed without
> a shell to speed up things. Unfortunatly that heuristic had some critical
> bugs. One of the is that a command can only have 20-1 arguments which often
> is not enough. The second of the patches fixes PATH lookups for check
> commands. 
> 
Wouldn't it be easier/safer to just fork a shell every time, if the
heuristic is unreliable?

Cheers,
Julien

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