Re: execve exect

> On Jul 13, 2023, at 20:28, Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 10:07 PM Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org <mailto: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.
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>> -- Doug
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> execve is an/the actual syscall.
> exect (and friends) are just different ways of presenting the environment to the underlying syscall which is execve.


Thanks.  I understand now.  I missed the 2 and 3 in those pages.

-- Doug