How do I pass a series of program arguments to the posix_spawn function ( <https://man7.org/linux/ma...

# kotlin-native

[napperley]

How do I pass a series of program arguments to the posix_spawn function ( https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_spawn.3.html ; using argv parameter )? I have tried the toCStringArray function ( https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlinx.cinterop/to-c-string-array.html ) trick but that isn't working as expected. Reading from the child process's output stream results in an infinite loop occurring. The child process is a Kotlin Native program that prints out the program arguments (via stdout).

[napperley]

Turns out the absolute path to the program needs to be the first element in the array, otherwise strange behaviour will occur when spawning the process.