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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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Subject: Xenix troubles execing a shell script.
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Date: 25 Sep 90 15:58:33 GMT
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Hi.  Has anyone else running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 had trouble with `spawn.c:spawn's
attempt to execute a shell script?  It gives me a "Exec format error"
error.  I've gotten it to work by doing:
	execle("/bin/sh", "sh", path, flag, (char *) NULL, myenviron);
instead of the current:
	execle(path, name, flag, (char *) NULL, myenviron);

Is this a problem in spawn.c:spawn, or have I misconfigured something?

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