On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:43:30PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Divacky Roman wrote this message on Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 18:39 +0100:
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 06:21:52PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
>
> Nope.. it need not be the same.. in cases like this:
> execl("/usr/bin/gzip", "gunzip", NULL);
>
> will give you gunzip behavior because the gzip binary looks at argv[0]
> and changes it's behavior based upon what it finds.. look at crunchgen
> for the ability to combine different programs into one binary...
ok.. but I'd appreciate info that it cannot be NULL ;(
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