<p dir="ltr">Use execvp(3). It resolves executables relative to the users PATH environment variable.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you look into the man pages for the other exec(3) functions, some of them don't account for $PATH.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 18, 2017, 3:00 AM mseaton <<a href="mailto:mseaton@stevens.edu">mseaton@stevens.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
I am not sure what we are supposed to do with PATH environment variable.<br>
Can someone shed some light?<br>
Marlon<br>
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