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From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at>
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Subject: Re: different behaviour on fbsd and linux
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 06:21:52PM +0100, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 06:17:18PM +0100, Divacky Roman wrote:
> >       execl("/bin/ls", NULL);
> 
> This is wrong. You must specify arg0 != NULL (POSIX says so) and you
> must NULL-terminate the *following* list.
> 
> E.g.:
> 	execl("/bin/ls", "/bin/ls", NULL);
> is what you want to do.

execl("/bin/ls", "/bin/ls", (char *)NULL); as NULL might expand to an
integer 0.

Stefan