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execve() call is available on Android as well. When process.execve was first added, it seems like no one checked if that is actually available on Android as well and works out of the box as __POSIX__ is defined on Android. process.execve call seems to behave just as fine as on Linux environment in my testing, so just make the docs specify it.

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@nodejs-github-bot nodejs-github-bot added doc Issues and PRs related to Node.js documentation. process Issues and PRs related to the process subsystem. labels Apr 2, 2025
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doc: process.execve is only unavailable for Windows
8e6dd82 
execve() call is available on Android as well. When process.execve was
first added, it seems like no one checked if that is actually available
on Android as well and works out of the box as __POSIX__ is defined on
Android. process.execve call seems to behave just as fine as on Linux
environment in my testing, so just make the docs specify it.
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I guess Android is POSIX, it's listed as "Mostly POSIX-compliant" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#POSIX-oriented_operating_systems. Given that it seems to be possible to get POSIX for Windows, I wonder if we should keep mentioning POSIX 🤔
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Also, I don't know if IBMI is POSIX but it doesn't support execve: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-ibmi/nodes=ibmi74-ppc64/1883/#showFailuresLink

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@targos It seems the syscall exists but we get a EPERM error somehow.

https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-ibmi/nodes=ibmi74-ppc64/1883/testReport/junit/(root)/parallel/test_process_execve_permission_granted/
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Hi @targos I'm currently investigating why we are getting back EPERM error on IBM i for some reason, execve does exist and I tested it using a simple C program.
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ibmi: execve issues #57882
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doc: process.execve is only unavailable for Windows
5d3106d 
execve() call is available on Android as well. When process.execve was
first added, it seems like no one checked if that is actually available
on Android as well and works out of the box as __POSIX__ is defined on
Android. process.execve call seems to behave just as fine as on Linux
environment in my testing, so just make the docs specify it.

PR-URL: #57726
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <[email protected]>
@RafaelGSS RafaelGSS mentioned this pull request May 1, 2025
2025-05-06, Version 24.0.0 (Current) #57609
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doc: process.execve is only unavailable for Windows
a8da209 
execve() call is available on Android as well. When process.execve was
first added, it seems like no one checked if that is actually available
on Android as well and works out of the box as __POSIX__ is defined on
Android. process.execve call seems to behave just as fine as on Linux
environment in my testing, so just make the docs specify it.

PR-URL: #57726
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <[email protected]>
aduh95 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 6, 2025
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doc: process.execve is only unavailable for Windows
a7724a7 
execve() call is available on Android as well. When process.execve was
first added, it seems like no one checked if that is actually available
on Android as well and works out of the box as __POSIX__ is defined on
Android. process.execve call seems to behave just as fine as on Linux
environment in my testing, so just make the docs specify it.

PR-URL: #57726
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <[email protected]>
RafaelGSS pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 14, 2025
@thunder-coding @RafaelGSS
doc: process.execve is only unavailable for Windows
d341762 
execve() call is available on Android as well. When process.execve was
first added, it seems like no one checked if that is actually available
on Android as well and works out of the box as __POSIX__ is defined on
Android. process.execve call seems to behave just as fine as on Linux
environment in my testing, so just make the docs specify it.

PR-URL: #57726
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <[email protected]>
aduh95 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 17, 2025
@thunder-coding @aduh95
doc: process.execve is only unavailable for Windows
f6aa625 
execve() call is available on Android as well. When process.execve was
first added, it seems like no one checked if that is actually available
on Android as well and works out of the box as __POSIX__ is defined on
Android. process.execve call seems to behave just as fine as on Linux
environment in my testing, so just make the docs specify it.

PR-URL: #57726
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <[email protected]>
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2025-05-21, Version 22.16.0 'Jod' (LTS) #58388
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doc: process.execve is only unavailable for Windows
945f4ac 
execve() call is available on Android as well. When process.execve was
first added, it seems like no one checked if that is actually available
on Android as well and works out of the box as __POSIX__ is defined on
Android. process.execve call seems to behave just as fine as on Linux
environment in my testing, so just make the docs specify it.

PR-URL: #57726
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <[email protected]>
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### Notable Changes autofix-ci/action#28
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