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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: shell in programs
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Date: 18 Jan 91 21:53:16 GMT
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>No big problem if it doesn't.  Just catch the ENOEXEC and do the shell call
>you would have done anyway.

Or, if you also want to run a command and have the system search $PATH
to see which one to run, if appropriate, rather than having to give a
full pathname, use "execvp()" which does the path search *and* the
catching of ENOEXEC for you....