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use execvp() rather than execv() in gdbserver


is there a compelling reason that execv() is used rather than execvp() in 
gdbserver/linux-low.c ?  seems it's just always been that way ...

personally, i find it annoying having to do:
# gdbserver :1234 /bin/ls /
on my embedded board instead of:
# gdbserver :1234 ls /

having used native gdb a lot more, i typo this pretty often since gdb will 
search $PATH for the program to run ;(
-mike

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2007-06-12  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>

	* linux-low.c (linux_create_inferior): Change execv to execvp.

--- linux-low.c
+++ linux-low.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ linux_create_inferior (char *program, ch
 
       setpgid (0, 0);
 
-      execv (program, allargs);
+      execvp (program, allargs);
 
       fprintf (stderr, "Cannot exec %s: %s.\n", program,
 	       strerror (errno));

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