/* execl() function: Execute a program, replacing the current process. Copyright (C) 2020-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* Written by Bruno Haible , 2020. */ /* Don't use __attribute__ __nonnull__ in this compilation unit. Otherwise gcc may optimize away the arg0 == NULL test below. */ #define _GL_ARG_NONNULL(params) #include /* Specification. */ #include #include #include #include "malloca.h" int execl (const char *program, const char *arg0, ...) { va_list args; /* The callee is not expecting a NULL argv[0]. */ if (arg0 == NULL) { errno = EINVAL; return -1; } /* Count the number of arguments (including arg0 and the trailing NULL). */ size_t count = 1; va_start (args, arg0); for (;;) { count++; if (va_arg (args, const char *) == NULL) break; } va_end (args); /* Allocate the argument vector. */ const char **argv = (const char **) malloca (count * sizeof (const char *)); if (argv == NULL) { errno = ENOMEM; return -1; } /* Copy the arguments into the argument vector. */ { size_t i = 0; argv[i++] = arg0; va_start (args, arg0); for (; i < count;) argv[i++] = va_arg (args, const char *); va_end (args); } /* Invoke execv. */ execv (program, argv); /* If execv returned, it must have failed. */ int saved_errno = errno; freea (argv); errno = saved_errno; return -1; }