Proposal: execvP

[Rajappa Iyer]

Tim Kientzle <kientzle at acm.org> writes:

> In essence, execvP() is merely publishing an already-existing capability
> within the library by breaking execvp() into two very natural pieces.
> Without this, I basically will have to copy a slightly modified version
> of execvp() into several utilities, which seems a rather pointless
> exercise.

What's wrong with 

putenv("PATH=newpath");
execvp(...);

What am I missing?

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