cosmopolitan/libc/calls/execl.c

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│ Copyright 2020 Justine Alexandra Roberts Tunney                              │
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#include "libc/calls/calls.h"
#include "libc/mem/alloca.h"
#include "libc/runtime/runtime.h"

/**
 * Executes program, with current environment.
 *
 * The current process is replaced with the executed one.
 *
 * @param prog will not be PATH searched, see execlp()
 * @param arg[0] is the name of the program to run
 * @param arg[1,n-2] optionally specify program arguments
 * @param arg[n-1] is NULL
 * @return doesn't return on success, otherwise -1 w/ errno
 * @asyncsignalsafe
 * @vforksafe
 */
int execl(const char *exe, const char *arg, ... /*, NULL*/) {
  int i;
  char **argv;
  va_list va, vb;
  va_copy(vb, va);
  va_start(va, arg);
  for (i = 0; va_arg(va, const char *); ++i) donothing;
  va_end(va);
  argv = alloca((i + 2) * sizeof(char *));
  va_start(vb, arg);
  argv[0] = (char *)arg;
  for (i = 1;; ++i) {
    if (!(argv[i] = va_arg(vb, char *))) break;
  }
  va_end(vb);
  return execv(exe, argv);
}