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Top Forums Programming When execl fails in C Post 302506203 by DoxieLvr on Saturday 19th of March 2011 12:30:32 AM

03-19-2011

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There is no parent process and child process in the code snippet you posted.

execl replaces the current program with a new one (in this case "/bin/sh"), all in the same process. By the time that /bin/sh generates the error, your execl and perror are long gone.

If you want to be able to continue after the execl, you need to put in in a child process (fork), wait for the child to terminate (wait or waitpid) and recover the exit status from the status variable written by wait/waitpid.

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