[mythtv] execl needs 'NULL'

James Knight foom at fuhm.net
Thu Mar 27 10:58:40 EST 2003


On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 10:13  AM, jasonmiller wrote:

> I just ran into the same problem.  The strange thing, however, is that 
> I was running 0.8 for a while and the latest cvs as well.  The problem 
> didn't show up until I restarted X last night without changing myth at 
> all.  I'm running Gentoo and my emerge log doesn't show any updates 
> since the last reboot.  I have no idea what might have changed.  
> Something obviously :)

The state of some piece of memory changed. If you don't explicitly pass 
an argument, whatever is there in memory/registers already before the 
call is what gets passed, so the behavior is completely arbitrary.

James



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