Re: execve exect

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 10:07 PM Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote:

> What is the difference between execve and exect other than exect passes
> along the trace flag?  I presume there must be a difference since execve
> has its own man page and is not included with all the other exec varients.
>
> -- Doug
>
>
execve is an/the actual syscall.
exect (and friends) are just different ways of presenting the environment
to the underlying syscall which is execve.

~Paul

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