mv'ing files from a C program

[Gary Weimer]

In article <1990Nov15.132952.11932 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>You don't have to use system(3), you can use fork/execl(2) (or one of it's 
>family of functions) as follows:
>
>	if( fork() == 0 )
>		execl("/bin/mv","mv",oldfile,newfile,(char *)0);
>	else
>		wait((int *)0);

That's just about exactly what system(3) does. (i.e. you gain nothing for
all the added code)