As others have said 'exec' refers to the family of exec system calls. It is part of POSIX 1003.
rgh On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 05:29, Shaul Karl wrote: > I was told that similar to execl, execlp et al there is also an exec > call. Yet when I run > > man exec > > I only get execl, execlp, execle, execv and execvp. No `pure' exec, one > without any additional letters. Can I safely tell that person that he is > definitely confusing the C system calls with shell or another > interpreted language? If not, what arguments does exec takes, what is > the return code and where is it documented? > -- > > Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t -- "It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity" -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
