mv'ing files from a C program

Gary Weimer weimer at ssd.kodak.com
Sat Nov 17 00:48:19 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov15.183359.963 at ssd.kodak.com> weimer at ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer) writes:
>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)...
>
>That's just about exactly what system(3) does. (i.e. you gain nothing for
>all the added code)

As others have pointed out, my above statement about system(3) is wrong.
Sorry for wasting bandwidth.



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