FVWM: execlp instead of execl?

From: John Williams <williams_at_sharkey.us.dynix.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:23:24 -0600 (MDT)

Forgive me if this has been asked before, but...

I have changed the "execl" (in exec_function() in builtins.c) to "execlp",
so that it would search $PATH instead of requiring me to specify the
entire path. I did this after upgrading to fvwm2 because many of my
menu items broke.

Is there a reason why execl is used instead of execlp?
If not, I suggest the following patch:

~John Williams
 (Linux 1.2.13 / XFree86 3.1.2D)


--- builtins.old Tue Apr 16 10:31:36 1996
+++ builtins.c Tue Apr 16 10:32:00 1996
_at_@ -661,7 +661,7 @@
   /* Not everyone has vfork! */
   if (!(fork())) /* child process */
   {
- if (execl(exec_shell_name, exec_shell_name, "-c", cmd, NULL)==-1)
+ if (execlp(exec_shell_name, exec_shell_name, "-c", cmd, NULL)==-1)
     {
       fvwm_msg(ERR,"exec_function","execl failed (%s)",strerror(errno));
       exit(100);

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Received on Tue Apr 16 1996 - 17:22:33 BST