On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 00:31:07 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Ferenc Wagner <wf...@niif.hu> writes: > > > - execvp("udhcpc", arguments); > > + /* execvp doesn't like const strings for no reason, so we can > > + cast away the const to suppress the compiler warning */ > > + execvp("udhcpc", (char **)arguments); > > Actually, I started to feel bad about this part. Maybe it would be > wiser to use non-const strings from the beginning? That would require a > larger patch, though... And ignoring the warning hasn't caused any > trouble yet. Does anybody know why execvp hates const strings?
execvp takes 'char *const argv[]', not 'const char **argv'. Cheers, Julien
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