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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Silence a compiler warning.



Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> writes:

> -            execvp("udhcpc", arguments);
> +            /* execvp doesn't like const strings for no reason, so we can
> +               cast away the const to suppress the compiler warning */
> +            execvp("udhcpc", (char **)arguments);

Actually, I started to feel bad about this part.  Maybe it would be
wiser to use non-const strings from the beginning?  That would require a
larger patch, though...  And ignoring the warning hasn't caused any
trouble yet.  Does anybody know why execvp hates const strings?
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.


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