zippo, You should post those kinds of questions to a place like Experts Exchange: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Platforms/Linux_Programming/ corey On 4/13/05, zippo <zippo752001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am writeing a toolbar program, so when you click the icon it starts a program. I got it working somewhat but was wondering the best way to start the program. I am useing something to the following > > pid_t pid; > > char *my_args[0]; > my_args[0] = NULL; > > pid = fork(); > > if (pid == 0) > { > execvp("Path/to/prog", my_args); > } > > is that proper? or is there a better way todo it? or am i going about it all wrong, any help would be great. Jason >
