Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: NULL etc. Message-ID: <12325@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 00:40:58 GMT References:<6966@cup.portal.com> <1315@ark.cs.vu.nl> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 12 >In article <12290@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote >> void execl(char *, ...); In article <1315@ark.cs.vu.nl> maart@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(). -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris