Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: execl()'ing batch files in DOS
Message-ID: <1649@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 18 May 89 16:57:02 GMT
References: <302@ohs.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>	execl("\command.com", "tryit.bat", NULL);

Oh, and as long as you're fixing this statement as per the other
comments, change "NULL" to "(char *)NULL".  NULL may be defined, at
present, so as to make the code work without the cast, but the code
isn't correct without it; put the cast in anyway, so that:

	1) you get into the habit of doing it, so that your code works
	   on systems where NULL *isn't* defined so as to make it work;

	2) your code is protected against changes to the environment
	   that might make it no longer work.

(No, function prototypes won't fix this case, since "execl" needs a
prototype like:

	int execl(char *, ...);

and the NULL matches the "...", so the compiler has no idea that an
actual argument of type "char *" is needed here.)