NULL etc.

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Wed Jul 6 10:40:58 AEST 1988


>In article <12290 at mimsy.UUCP> I wrote
>>		void execl(char *, ...);

In article <1315 at ark.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) asks:
>Doesn't execl() return int anymore? With the cause of the failure in errno?

Well, actually, yes; but it only ever returns -1, so declaring it
as `int' is somewhat pointless---the value is even less useful than
that from, e.g., strcpy().
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