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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:20:39 +0200
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov@syntrex.com>
Organization: Syntrex Inc.
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Subject: [Fwd: simple execvp test]
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Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> 
> This mail is inspired by an offlist discussion
> with James Lee about vi execution before
> "cvs commit" command.
> 
> Given the following simple test he says nothing
> happens after he executes it, as happens with the
> "cvs commit" command which fails to execute vi
> with the following error code "cannot exec vi: No such file or
> directory".
> 
> #include <unistd.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>   char *arg[] = {
>     0
>   };
> 
>   execvp("vi", arg);
> 
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> If he sets for example the EDITOR variable
> to /usr/bin/vi then cvs suceeds in executing
> vi.
> 
> So is this a known problem with execvp assuming
> that it should search the path for the executable.

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