Passes the name of an image to be activated in a child process. This
function is nonreentrant.
Format
#include <unistd.h>
int execv (char *file_spec, char *argv[]);
Arguments
- file_spec
- The full file specification of a new image to be activated in
the child process.
- argv
- An array of pointers to null-terminated character strings.
These strings constitute the argument list available to the new
process. By convention, argv[0] must point to a string that
is the same as the new process file name (or its last component).
argv is terminated by a NULL pointer.
Description
See execl in this section for a description of how the exec
functions operate.
Return Value
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