Correct way to call execve?

[Leo Bicknell]

In a message written on Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 02:13:52PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> If I declare argv as "const char *",
> then the call to execve() warns about
> "incompatible pointer type" for the
> second argument.

Almost, but the other order is important here, this passes gcc -Wall:

#include <unistd.h>
#include <paths.h>

int main(int argc, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]) {
  char *const execargv[] = { _PATH_BSHELL, NULL };

  execve(_PATH_BSHELL,execargv,envp);

  return 0;
}


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