explain_execve_or_die(3)

✨ explain_execve_or_die(3) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual 🎀 like yes it's a manual page but it's also a whole vibe, and this one's about explain_execve_or_die — the function that runs your program and, if things go sideways, tells you why before it dips. 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

explain_execve_or_die — execute program and report errors 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <libexplain/execve.h>
void explain_execve_or_die(const char *pathname, const char *const
*argv, const char *const *envp);

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the explain_execve_or_die function is the one you call when you wanna hit up the execve(2) system call. and like, if it fails? bestie, it prints a whole explanation to stderr — courtesy of explain_execve(3) — and then the process literally ends itself by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE). no cap. 💀

this function is meant to be used in a way that's similar to this example, periodt:

explain_execve_or_die(pathname, argv, envp);

here's the rundown on the args, because we're thorough in this house 🫶

• pathname — the pathname, exactly as to be passed to the execve(2) system call. no edits, no glow-ups, copy it over as-is. ✨
• argv — the argv, exactly as to be passed to the execve(2) system call. again, verbatim, bestie. 💅
• envp — the envp, exactly as to be passed to the execve(2) system call. same energy, same exactness. 🌈

Returns:

this function only returns on success. on failure, it prints an explanation and exits. so if you ever see it come back, that's your sign that everything ate. 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• execve(2) — execute program 🌟
• explain_execve(3) — explain execve(2) errors 🧚
• exit(2) — terminate the calling process 💀

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

libexplain version 1.4 Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller

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and that's the whole page, bestie — mwah, sending you the slayest of vibes, and remember: this little beauty lives in the Library Functions Manual, it's explain_execve_or_die(3), and it's brought to you by libexplain version 1.4, copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller 💖✨🎀