Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:39:08 +0100 From: Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: different behaviour on fbsd and linux Message-ID: <20060218173908.GA73913@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060218172152.GB11874@britannica.bec.de> References: <20060218171718.GA73133@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20060218172152.GB11874@britannica.bec.de>
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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.
ah.. thnx.. the man page should be updated with "he
first argument, by convention, should point to the file name associated
with the file being executed."
s/should/must then
roman
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