/* execv() 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. */ #include /* Specification. */ #include int execv (const char *program, char * const *argv) { /* Pass the environment explicitly. This is needed if the program has modified the environment using putenv() or [un]setenv(). On Windows, processes have two environments, one in the "environment block" of the process and managed through SetEnvironmentVariable(), and one inside the process, in the location retrieved by the 'environ' macro. If we were to pass NULL, the child process would inherit a copy of the environment block - ignoring the effects of putenv() and [un]setenv(). */ return execve (program, argv, environ); }