Re: execvp and nvmatch () issue on solaris

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 04/28/05 

Date: 28 Apr 2005 21:14:23 GMT

"Shekar" <ctippur@msn.com> writes:

>All,

>I am trying to execute a binary "mybinary" with arguments using
>execvp() system call as in:
>BTW: I can run "bin/mybinary hello" from command line and it returns
>the right value.
>char * const myargc[]={"bin/mybinary","hello",NULL};
>if (execvp(myargc[0],myargc) == -1)
> perror("execvp");

>I am getting SIGSEGV and this is what gdb shows:

>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>0xff2b9dd8 in nvmatch ()
>(gdb) bt
>#0 0xff2b9dd8 in nvmatch ()
>#1 0xff2b9e8c in getenv ()
>#2 0xff2b7fb4 in execvp ()
>#3 0x10dc4 in main (argc=3, argv=0xffbefdb4) at myhandler.c:154

>I would really appreciate if someone could put some light on to this
>issue.

Please post self-contained source showing the issue.

Casper 

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