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From: Halesh S <halesh.s@india.com>
Subject: Need inforamtion on execve(2) on ENOMEM
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:30:46 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi,

I need a bit information regarding execve(2) sys call failure on no memory.

when execve(2) exits with ENOMEM, it will fail to return back to the calling 
program as it receives the SIGKILL from the kernel.

Is it a right behavior that execve() will not return to calling 
program on ENOMEM. As I understood execve(2) will not return only on success.

As errno will be lost, its very diffcult to judge execve(2) status.

If not expected behaviour,  I can provide a testcase for this.

Please let me about this.

Thanks,
Halesh