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CRTL, execve
*Conan The Librarian
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Passes the name of an image to be activated in a child process.
This function is nonreentrant.
Format
#include <unistd.h>
int execve (const char *file_spec, char *argv[], char *envp[]);
file_spec
The full file specification of a new image to be activated in the
child process.
argv
An array of pointers to null-terminated character strings.
These strings constitute the argument list available to the new
process. By convention, argv[0] must point to a string that is
the same as the new process filename (or its last component).
argv is terminated by a NULL pointer.
envp
An array of strings that specifies the program's environment.
Each string in envp has the following form:
name = value
The name can be one of the following names and the value is a
null-terminated string to be associated with the name:
o HOME-Your login directory
o TERM-The type of terminal being used
o PATH-The default device and directory
o USER-The name of the user who initiated the process
The last element in envp must be the NULL pointer.
When the operating system executes the program, it places a copy
of the current environment vector (envp) in the external variable
environ.
See execl for a description of how the exec functions operate.
-1 Indicates failure.