Re: Warning with execvp

From: Sergei Organov (osv_at_javad.ru)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: 29 Mar 2005 16:21:55 +0400

tingashilo@yahoo.com writes:
> So trivial it's amazing I didn't see this option earlier.

Yes, but make sure not to call your routine with 'char const*'
arguments, for example, a call

        SWExec("the_executable", "an_argument");

results in undefined behavior. If the_executable will try to modify its
arguments (that's an allowed action for an executable), it most probably
will result in segmentation fault.

Also, from definition of your SWExec() it's unclear how do you know how
many arguments has been passed to the routine. 

-- 
Sergei.

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