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Re: [PATCH] Use execvp to call sendmail



On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:18:45PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > I'm curious: does the ssh client binary tend to move around the
> > filesystem randomly on these peoples' systems?
> 
> No, but mutt just says "exec error" which is in no way enlightening on
> what is actually going wrong. 

So you "fix" the lack of information by opening up a security hole?
How about just making Mutt emit a more useful error message instead?

> The reason I discovered that was that someone on #mutt had this
> problem this afternoon.

Stop trying to work around user ignorance by making it easier for them
to shoot themselves in the foot.  There's a reason Mutt uses execv
instead of execvp.

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