file_spec The full file specification of a new image to be activated in the child process. arg0, ... A sequence of pointers to null-terminated character strings. If the POSIX-1 format is used, at least one argument must be present and must point to a string that is the same as the new process filename (or its last component). (This pointer can also be the NULL pointer, but then execle would accomplish nothing.) The last pointer must be the NULL pointer. This is also the convention if the compatibility format is used.