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In article <CHAS.91Feb3040833@stax.uchicago.edu> chas@stax.uchicago.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
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>I'm spawning a child program written in assembly language from a
>parent written in C as follows:
>
>	spawnlp(P_WAIT,"WHATEVER.EXE","",NULL);
>	exit(0);
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You forgot arg0.  If you look inside the reference manual you fill find spawnlp defined as follows:

int spawnlp(int mode, char *cmdname, char *arg0, char *arg1,...,argn,NULL);

cmdname : Path name of the file to be executed.  
arg0,...argn : List of pointers to arguments, terminated by NULL.

At least one argument, arg0, must be passed to the child process(which 
sees it as argv[0]).  This argument is usually a copy of the cmdname 
i.e a pointer to the path

The statement should then be :
       spawnlp(P_WAIT,"whatever.exe","whatever",NULL);
       ......

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