Re: C programming: Is there an exec (with no additional letters) call?
As others have said 'exec' refers to the family of exec system calls. It
is part of POSIX 1003.
rgh
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 05:29, Shaul Karl wrote:
> I was told that similar to execl, execlp et al there is also an exec
> call. Yet when I run
>
> man exec
>
> I only get execl, execlp, execle, execv and execvp. No `pure' exec, one
> without any additional letters. Can I safely tell that person that he is
> definitely confusing the C system calls with shell or another
> interpreted language? If not, what arguments does exec takes, what is
> the return code and where is it documented?
> --
>
> Shaul Karl, shaulka@bezeqint.n e t
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