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- From: ig25@fg30.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: exec problem
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 12:56:18 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- The family of exec calls does not work for self - compiled programs
- on my machine (486, 0.99pl1, 4.1 jump libraries from SLS 0.98pl5).
-
- Doing a
-
- execlp("ls","ls",(char *) NULL)
-
- results in the program dying mysteriously; when I run it under gdb, gdb
- catches trace signal (SIGTRAP, number 5). If I continue the program,
- it does what's intended.
- --
- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
- The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
- diagram.
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