On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 06:17:18PM +0100, Divacky Roman wrote: > execl("/bin/ls", NULL); This is wrong. You must specify arg0 != NULL (POSIX says so) and you must NULL-terminate the *following* list. E.g.: execl("/bin/ls", "/bin/ls", NULL); is what you want to do. Joerg