From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: devel/libuv: use getexecpath(3)
To: Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Cc: ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:07:27 -0600

Please tell upstream of the concerns.

Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev> wrote:

> ... alternatively, here's a simple wrapper around getexecpath(3),
> with adjusted test cases to document where we deviate from upstream's
> default behavior - might be harder to upstream once 8.0 is released,
> but it's worth a shot.
> 
> On 9/8/26 7:46 PM, Volker Schlecht wrote:
> > Here's an attempt to switch libuv to getexecpath(3).
> > It builds, tests pass, afaict it behaves the same as the other
> > implementations (i.e. it copies a truncated path and no error
> > when the path doesn't fit into the buffer).
> > In lang/node it allows me to drop the current workaround to make
> > process.execPath work.
> > It could probably use some adult supervision, though ...