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Re: Bug in builtins.def, the execve. don't use execle, use execel.

"Michael Meissner" <michael.meissner@amd.com> writes:

> These system calls are part of the Opengroup standard for UNIX (which Linux
> adheres to), and they have been around for many years.  At this point, I don't
> recall if they were part of the UNIX V7 that is the ancestor of all modern
> Linux, UNIX, BSD, etc. systems or whether they first appeared in System III or
> BSD 4.2 (early 1980's).

According to <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi> they were already in
V7.

(I don't think V7 had <varargs.h> yet.)

Andreas.

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