Thus spake Shaul Karl:
>   I was told that similar to execl, execlp et al there is also an exec
> call. Yet when I run 
> 
>     man exec
> 
> I only get execl, execlp, execle, execv and execvp. No `pure' exec, one
> without any additional letters. Can I safely tell that person that he is
> definitely confusing the C system calls with shell or another
> interpreted language? If not, what arguments does exec takes, what is
> the return code and where is it documented?

As far as I know, 'exec' is a shell command, execl,  execv,  execle,
execlp and execvp are the C functions.


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