Re: Patch to execve

["Kevin M. Kilbride" <kmk@xxxxxxx>]

Accidentally replied to sender instead of to list. Apologies again.

> Chris Pressey wrote:
>
> > SUS is idiotic here.
> >
> > Would it be possible to apply this but only under #ifndef 
> > POSIXLY_CORRECT
> > or something?
> >  
>
> I agree. Adding a const attribute to system interfaces will _never_ 
> break calling code, since it simply advertises a guarantee that the 
> code will not change what is supplied. The code either does or it 
> doesn't. If it truly doesn't, then why not advertise it as such? It 
> can hardly be argued as "breaking" the POSIX interface. There is no 
> real hope of making all of userland truly WARNS=6 compliant without it.