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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Help with Execl system call in a C program? Post 302898503 by bakunin on Tuesday 22nd of April 2014 01:06:42 PM
Old 04-22-2014
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Originally Posted by miniviking10
Thanks for the help though..not.
I do not understand how perderabo has earned your ridicule by honestly trying to help you. If you do not understand it than this is probably more your fault than it is his, no?

Having said this: in your script is a typo which prevents it from being executed properly: search for "sameNos" and you should see it yourself.

The "execl()" system call loads (a copy of) an executable file into memory, prepares a runtime environment for it and starts this loaded copy of the file as a process. Obviously to load it into memory it needs the name of the file, not of some directory, no?

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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lmfsetup(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       lmfsetup(8)

Name
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