Passes the name of an image to be activated in a child process. This function is nonreentrant. Format #include <unistd.h> int execv (char *file_spec, char *argv[]);
1 – Arguments
file_spec The full file specification of a new image to be activated in the child process. argv An array of pointers to null-terminated character strings. These strings constitute the argument list available to the new process. By convention, argv[0] must point to a string that is the same as the new process filename (or its last component). argv is terminated by a NULL pointer.
2 – Description
See execl for a description of how the exec functions operate.
3 – Return Value
-1 Indicates failure.