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authorArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2004-09-27 19:54:33 (GMT)
committerArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2004-09-27 19:54:33 (GMT)
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Patch #1009075, bug #952953: allow execve with empty 2nd argument
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@@ -1226,8 +1226,8 @@ the individual parameters simply become additional parameters to the
\function{execl*()} functions. The \character{v} variants are good
when the number of parameters is variable, with the arguments being
passed in a list or tuple as the \var{args} parameter. In either
-case, the arguments to the child process must start with the name of
-the command being run.
+case, the arguments to the child process should start with the name of
+the command being run, but this is not enforced.
The variants which include a \character{p} near the end
(\function{execlp()}, \function{execlpe()}, \function{execvp()},