execl(“/home/vlc”, “/home/vlc”, “/home/my movies/the movie i want to see.mkv”, (char*) NULL); You need to specify all arguments, included argv[0] which isn’t taken from the executable. Also make sure the final NULL gets cast to char*. Details are here: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exec.html
Since we can’t find a version on the Internet, let’s start one here. Most ports to Windows probably only need a subset of the complete Unix file. Here’s a starting point. Please add definitions as needed. #ifndef _UNISTD_H #define _UNISTD_H 1 /* This is intended as a drop-in replacement for unistd.h on Windows. * Please … Read more
In your: if ( buff == ‘\n’ && fe && fn ) //<– I assume you want to check if an empty line was read by checking it against the newline character. However, buff is not the character; it is a pointer to were all the characters read are stored. To check if the first … Read more