13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
4:16 a.m.
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 23:18 -0700, Evan Laforge wrote:
Yes, I ran into the same thing a while back. The problem is that the subprocess has already been forked off before it runs exec() and finds out the file doesn't exist.
Given how astonishingly common it is to pass an invalid executable name and/or path, wouldn't it be worth doing a quick probe to see if the file exists before createProcess actually forks? [It's not like the effort the OS is going to do for the stat is going to be thrown away; whether that call pulls it up off of disk or the one after the fork that exec will do doesn't matter] AfC Sydney