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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
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>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().
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