exec() with executable shell scripts

[Kenneth Almquist]

jiii at visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
> [The sample exec code in <7954 at june.cs.washington.edu>] will fail, that
> is exit(2), if program is not an absolute or relative pathname and is
> not a file in the current directory.

That was intentional:  the initial problem was to do the equivalent of
an "exec" on a shell procedure.  If you want a path search in addition,
then you can use execlp or execvp.
					Kenneth Almquist