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From: leo@marco.UUCP (Matthias Pfaller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.5.3 init.c
Summary: problem is in sbrk
Message-ID: <303@alice.marco.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 08:14:50 GMT
References: <1660@crash.cts.com>
Organization: marco GmbH, 8047 Karlsfeld, West-Germany
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In article <1660@crash.cts.com>, cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) writes:
> of execle rather than execn in init.  Execle works ok if login is found
> in the first place it looks (/bin) but if login isn't there execle won't
> find it in the second place it tries, /usr/bin, or anywhere else.  It just

The problem lies in the local version of sbrk, which can only be called once.
The new 1.5.3 execxx routines allocate memory with sbrk and free them,
if the exec call fails. The local sbrk in init.c can't handle sbrk for freeing
memory.

		leo@marco.uucp (Matthias Pfaller)