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From: rfg@lupine.ncd.com (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Annoying prototypes for execv* functions in V.4 <sys/unistd.h>
Message-ID: <3598@lupine.NCD.COM>
Date: 30 Jan 91 21:59:21 GMT
Sender: rfg@NCD.COM
Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mt. View, CA
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If you use and/or sell System V Release 4 you may want to fix up your
<sys/unistd.h> file.

It probably contains:

extern int execv(const char *, char *const *);
extern int execve(const char *, char *const *, char *const *);
extern int execvp(const char *, char *const *);

I'm fairly sure that these declarations should be changed to:

extern int execv(const char *, const char *const *);
extern int execve(const char *, const char *const *, const char *const *);
extern int execvp(const char *, const char *const *);

If your company sells V.4 ports to the general public (either on your
company's own hardware or on somebody else's) I encourage you to fix
this annoying little problem in the systems that your company distributes
to its customers.

Please don't make us all suffer with this annoying glitch.