Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:53:19 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: spawn() problem.
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> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:29:40 +0300
> From: "NirinaMichel Ratoandromanana/DF" <n DOT ratoandromanana AT bni DOT mg>
> 
> eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il a crit:
> >Please show a short test program which exhibits the problem.  It is
> >impossible to help you without seeing the code which fails.
> 
> if (spawnvp(P_WAIT, "gcc", NULL) == -1)
> 	printf ("spawn...() error!\n");
> What's wrong?

The way you call spawnvp is incorrect.  The prototype of this
function, as documented in the library reference, is this:

  int spawnvp(int mode, const char *path, const char **argv);

Your call puts a NULL pointer into the argv[] array passed to the
child program.  That's invalid usage: argv[] should at least have the
argv[0] element non-NULL.

Here's the correct way of doing this:

       char *argv[] = { "gcc", NULL };

       if (spawnvp(P_WAIT, "gcc", argv) == -1)
         printf ("spawn...() error!\n");