/* Copyright (C) 1991-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see . */ #include #include #include #include /* Execute PATH with all arguments after PATH until a NULL pointer and environment from `environ'. */ int execl (const char *path, const char *arg, ...) { ptrdiff_t argc; va_list ap; va_start (ap, arg); for (argc = 1; va_arg (ap, const char *); argc++) { if (argc == INT_MAX) { va_end (ap); errno = E2BIG; return -1; } } va_end (ap); /* Avoid dynamic memory allocation due two main issues: 1. The function should be async-signal-safe and a running on a signal handler with a fail outcome might lead to malloc bad state. 2. It might be used in a vfork/clone(VFORK) scenario where using malloc also might lead to internal bad state. */ ptrdiff_t i; char *argv[argc + 1]; va_start (ap, arg); argv[0] = (char *) arg; for (i = 1; i <= argc; i++) argv[i] = va_arg (ap, char *); va_end (ap); return __execve (path, argv, __environ); } libc_hidden_def (execl)