Making the transport layer more robust

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:31:48AM +0200, Turgis, Frederic wrote:
> [...]
> I tested that Ok, as Android defines PATH correctly. However, I have
> found these comments on a systemtap execvp call so I am no sure of
> possible interferences with other requirements:
>     /* Note that execvp() is not a direct system call; it does a $PATH
>        search in glibc.  We would like to filter out these dummy syscalls
>        from the utrace events seen by scripts. [...]

Aha, good catch.  We could autoconf it (suffer the extra syscall
traces for android), or use $SHELL perhaps if /bin/sh doesn't exist,
or perform the $PATH search ourselves.

- FChE