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execvPe: obviate the need for potentially large stack allocations

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execvPe: obviate the need for potentially large stack allocations

Some environments in which execvPe may be called have a limited amount of
stack available. Currently, it avoidably allocates a segment on the stack
large enough to hold PATH so that it may be mutated and use strsep() for
easy parsing. This logic is now rewritten to just operate on the immutable
string passed in and do the necessary math to extract individual paths,
since it will be copying out those segments to another buffer anyways and
piecing them together with the name for a full path.

Additional size is also needed for the stack in posix_spawnp(), because it
may need to push all of argv to the stack and rebuild the command with sh in
front of it. We'll make sure it's properly aligned for the new thread, but
future work should likely make rfork_thread a little easier to use by
ensuring proper alignment.

Some trivial cleanup has been done with a couple of error writes, moving
strings into char arrays for use with the less fragile sizeof().

Reported by: Andrew Gierth <andrew_tao173.riddles.org.uk>
Reviewed by: jilles, kib, Andrew Gierth
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25038

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kevansAuthored on
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jilles
Differential Revision
D25038: execvPe: obviate the need for potentially large stack allocations
Parents
rS361995: execvp: fix up the ENOEXEC fallback
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