import used execl, which had the nil added yesterday, but i suspect it was intended to be execv all along in one case. Notes: Sat Jul 23 10:05:21 EDT 2005 rsc right you are Reference: /n/sources/patch/applied/import-exec Date: Fri Jul 22 14:51:13 CES 2005 Reviewed-by: rsc --- /sys/src/cmd/import.c Fri Jul 22 14:48:26 2005 +++ /sys/src/cmd/import.c Fri Jul 22 14:48:22 2005 @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ alarm(0); if(backwards && argc > 1){ - execl(argv[1], &argv[1], nil); + execv(argv[1], &argv[1]); sysfatal("exec: %r"); } exits(0);