Allowing users to change execvp’s shell?

[Florian Weimer]

On 12/16/2012 12:41 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> In the context of GNU Guix, I’m pondering a change that would allow
> users to change the shell used by ‘execvp’ (more details about the
> rationale at <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/9748>),

Frankly, I don't see how changing glibc fixes your problem.  Could you 
elaborate?  It's certainly odd to change libc because the file system 
layout is not what is expected.

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