Unix Programming - Use of execl()

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Use of execl()

Aaron Hsu

2008-03-04, 7:17 pm

Is it okay to pass something other than the pathname as argv[0] when
using execl()?

execl(some_exec_path, argument1, NULL);

where argument1 != full_path_of_exec?
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