Calling 'ls' with execv

问题

I am new to system calls and C programming and am working on my university assignment.

I want to call the 'ls' command and have it print the directory.

What I have: (I have added comments in so you can see what I see coming through each variable.

int execute( command* cmd ){

  char full_path[50];
  find_fullP(full_path, p_cmd); 
  //find_fullP successfully updates full_path to /bin/ls
  char* args[p_cmd->argc];
  args[0] = p_cmd->name;
  int i;
  for(i = 1; i < p_cmd->argc; i++){
      args[i] = p_cmd->argv[i];
  }

/*
 * this piece of code updates an args variable which holds arguments 
 * (stored in the struct) in case the command is something else that takes 
 * arguments. In this case, it will hold nothing since the command 
 * will be just 'ls'.
 */

  int child_process_status;
  pid_t child_pid;
  pid_t pid;

  child_pid = fork();

  if ( child_pid == 0 ) {
      execv( full_path, args );
      perror("fork child process error condition!" );
  }

  pid = wait( &child_process_status );
  return 0;
}

I am not seeing anything happening and am confused, any idea?

回答1:

Here's the minimal program that invokes ls using execv. Things to note

the list of args should include the executable as the first arg
the list of args must be NULL terminated
if the args are set up correctly, then args[0] can be passed as the first parameter to execv

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main( void )
{
    int status;
    char *args[2];

    args[0] = "/bin/ls";        // first arg is the full path to the executable
    args[1] = NULL;             // list of args must be NULL terminated

    if ( fork() == 0 )
        execv( args[0], args ); // child: call execv with the path and the args
    else
        wait( &status );        // parent: wait for the child (not really necessary)

    return 0;
}

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28507950/calling-ls-with-execv

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