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Re: [PATCH v2] Use execveat syscall in fexecve
* Joseph Myers:
> We have the ENOSYS code there and the subsequent fallback that will
> eventually need cleaning up *anyway*. Having the __ASSUME_* macro makes
> it obvious in future exactly what changes should be made for the cleanup
> and exactly when it is possible to do that cleanup. I think having such
> macros for any case with fallback code that can be cleaned up in future is
> a good idea for that reason.
Agreed. As long as there is an expectation that we will eventually
bump the minimum kernel requirement, __ASSUME_* macros are the way to
go.