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From: reg@pinet.aip.org (Dr. Richard Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Problems with execl("bin/csh", ...) in my OWN shell from login
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.165027.16309@pinet.aip.org>
Date: 9 Mar 91 16:50:27 GMT
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Organization: American Institute of Physics
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When cshell is a login shell, it is given a special name of -.  What
you may want to try is is the following :

execl("/bin/csh", "-", (char **)0 );

This will invoke the csh as if the shell was invoked by login.
Ricky Glass - reg@pinet.aip.org