Why must path be in args in os.execv?

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Thu Jul 1 11:12:30 EDT 1999


In article <377A2590.D95D72FE at phoenix-edv.netzservice.de>,
Holger Jannsen  <holger at phoenix-edv.netzservice.de> wrote:
>
>there's again something I don't understand. Hope you do.;-)
>
>I'd like to start a windows-executable with some arguments.
>Ok. 'os.execv' or anything like that is the thing.
>
>But if I don't repeat the path with the arguments, the execution fails.
>Better: Something happens, but not the correct execution.

If you look in a standard C-library docs, you'll see the same thing.
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