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FEXECVE(3)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		    FEXECVE(3)

NAME
       fexecve - execute program specified via file descriptor

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       int fexecve(int fd, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       fexecve():
	   Since glibc 2.10:
	       _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
	   Before glibc 2.10:
	       _GNU_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION
       fexecve() performs the same task as execve(2), with the difference that
       the file to be executed is specified via a file descriptor, fd,	rather
       than  via a pathname.  The file descriptor fd must be opened read-only,
       and the caller must have permission to execute the file that it	refers
       to.

RETURN VALUE
       A  successful  call to fexecve() never returns.	On error, the function
       does return, with a result value of -1, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS
       Errors are as for execve(2), with the following additions:

       EINVAL fd is not a valid file descriptor, or argv is NULL, or  envp  is
	      NULL.

       ENOSYS The /proc filesystem could not be accessed.

VERSIONS
       fexecve() is implemented since glibc 2.3.2.

CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2008.   This  function is not specified in POSIX.1-2001, and is
       not  widely  available  on  other  systems.    It   is	specified   in
       POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES
       On  Linux,  fexecve()  is  implemented using the proc(5) filesystem, so
       /proc needs to be mounted and available at the time of the call.

       If fd is a file descriptor that refers to an interpreter script and has
       been  marked  as close-on-exec (see the discussion of the FD_CLOEXEC in
       fcntl(2)), fexecve() will fail to execute the  script,  since,  by  the
       time  the  script  interpreter  tries to access the script file, fd has
       already been closed.

       The idea behind fexecve() is to allow the caller to  verify  (checksum)
       the  contents of an executable before executing it.  Simply opening the
       file, checksumming the contents, and then doing an execve(2) would  not
       suffice,	 since,	 between  the  two steps, the filename, or a directory
       prefix of the pathname, could have been	exchanged  (by,	 for  example,
       modifying  the target of a symbolic link).  fexecve() does not mitigate
       the problem that the contents of a file could be	 changed  between  the
       checksumming  and  the  call to fexecve(); for that, the solution is to
       ensure that the permissions on the file prevent it from being  modified
       by malicious users.

SEE ALSO
       execve(2)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.65 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux				  2014-04-20			    FEXECVE(3)
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