FEXECVE(3P)

✨ FEXECVE(3P) — POSIX Programmer's Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to fexecve 💅 this one lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual (yes, the POSIX one, not the Linux one, iykyk).

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

so like, this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. and here's the tea: the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux you gotta go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the details of how Linux actually does it. OR, plot twist, the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all 🙈. vibe check accordingly.

👑 NAME 👑

fexecve — execute a file

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <unistd.h>

int fexecve(int fd, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Refer to exec.

bestie this is literally the whole description. it's giving "go read exec, this page is a forwarding address" 😭 iconic of it honestly.

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page, no cap 🫶 stay slay, go read exec, and remember: IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, FEXECVE(3P) — that's the source, the version, and the date, bestie, so now you know 💖✨