execlp/execvp/execvpe behavior change in glibc 2.24?

[Florian Weimer]

On 11/20/2017 04:54 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> Review it I also agree this seems beneficial and POSIX states
> this special case is implementation-defined.  I also do not oppose
> if this might characterize as compat issue and we should go back
> to old behaviour.  Thoughts?

I would leave it as it is now.  The compatibility impact does not seem 
to be extreme, otherwise we'd already received a bug report.

We should update the relevant NEWS files retroactively, though.

Thanks,
Florian