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Well, read the man page, and read the reference that alister gave in his post, where the use and function of the exec family is explained. You have to learn to tell an image (file) from a path,...

The type of each argument that you pass to execv may be correct, but paths[pathindex] is a path to a directory where execv expects a path to an executable.

For additional feedback, if execv...

man page of execv:The file is the executable's file name prefixed with an entire path. You supply a path, but no executable.
BTW, wouldn't it be better to fork once and then try to execute a file...

You're using execv incorrectly. The first argument should be a path to the executable, not a directory. See "Using execv()" @
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exec.html
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Simple answer: because you don't look in all directories. You only look in the directories in the PATH and this is exactly what the program does.

Have you written this program yourself or copied...