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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: execlp, execvp oddity fixed 
Message-ID: <3856@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-May-84 18:36:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 15 18:36:18 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 15-May-84 18:36:18 EDT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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The execlp(2) and execvp(2) routines used to have the minor oddity
that they considered `-' as well as `:' to be a delimiter within the
PATH variable.  This was inconsistent with practically everything
else on the system, and a potential problem.  This `feature' has
been removed.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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