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From: ka@june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: exec() with executable shell scripts
Summary: If you want a path search, use exec[lv]p.
Message-ID: <7991@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 89 20:00:03 GMT
References: <647@mqcomp.oz> <520@visdc.UUCP> <7954@june.cs.washington.edu> <522@visdc.UUCP>
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
> [The sample exec code in <7954@june.cs.washington.edu>] will fail, that
> is exit(2), if program is not an absolute or relative pathname and is
> not a file in the current directory.

That was intentional:  the initial problem was to do the equivalent of
an "exec" on a shell procedure.  If you want a path search in addition,
then you can use execlp or execvp.
					Kenneth Almquist