Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/execl.html > "The statement about argv[] and envp[] being constants is included to make > explicit to future writers of language bindings that these objects are > completely constant. Due to a limitation of the ISO C standard, it is not > possible to state that idea in standard C."
I think you are mixing up something here. This statement is only related to the fact that a call to exec* must not modify any of the argv and envp strings, despite the difficulty of expressing that in the prototype. The C standard explicitly requires that the argv array contents are modifiable in the executed process. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
