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Old 09-02-2001
execvp and execlp?

Hi mates,

Is there any difference between execvp and execlp? any comment will be appreciated.

abdulSmilie
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Old 09-04-2001
With execvp you need an argv array already built. So a program like:
Code:
#include "stdlib.h"  /** vb is eating my angle brackets **/
main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
      execvp(*++argv, argv);
}

will simply pass its arguments to execvp.

With execlp you do stuff like:
execlp("echo", "echo", "one", "two", NULL);
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