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| <a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exec.html">execve(2)</a>).</p> |
| <p>The execve system call allows for another process to be “called” which will |
| replace the current process image. That is, this process becomes the new |
| command that is run. On success, this function will not return. Instead, |
| the new program will run until it exits.</p> |
| <p><code>::nix::unistd::execv</code> and <code>::nix::unistd::execve</code> take as arguments a slice |
| of <code>::std::ffi::CString</code>s for <code>args</code> and <code>env</code> (for <code>execve</code>). Each element |
| in the <code>args</code> list is an argument to the new process. Each element in the |
| <code>env</code> list should be a string in the form “key=value”.</p> |
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