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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <limits.h>

/*
 * POSIX C function: exec a program on the search path. Tries
 * execv() repeatedly until one of the choices works.
 */
int
execvp(const char *prog, char *const *args)
{
	const char *searchpath, *s, *t;
	char progpath[PATH_MAX];
	size_t len;

	if (strchr(prog, '/') != NULL) {
		execv(prog, args);
		return -1;
	}

	searchpath = getenv("PATH");
	if (searchpath == NULL) {
		errno = ENOENT;
		return -1;
	}

	for (s = searchpath; s != NULL; s = t) {
		t = strchr(s, ':');
		if (t != NULL) {
			len = t - s;
			/* advance past the colon */
			t++;
		}
		else {
			len = strlen(s);
		}
		if (len == 0) {
			continue;
		}
		if (len >= sizeof(progpath)) {
			continue;
		}
		memcpy(progpath, s, len);
		snprintf(progpath + len, sizeof(progpath) - len, "/%s", prog);
		execv(progpath, args);
		switch (errno) {
		    case ENOENT:
		    case ENOTDIR:
		    case ENOEXEC:
			/* routine errors, try next dir */
			break;
		    default:
			/* oops, let's fail */
			return -1;
		}
	}
	errno = ENOENT;
	return -1;
}