diff --git a/crates/nit/src/system/syscall.rs b/crates/nit/src/system/syscall.rs
index 3a5789f..72dc32d 100644
--- a/crates/nit/src/system/syscall.rs
+++ b/crates/nit/src/system/syscall.rs
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ pub fn execv(command: impl AsRef<Path>, args: &[&str]) -> Result<()> {
 
     // NOTE: The last arg must be a null pointer, but we can't construct a CString from nullptr, so
     // we construct an array of pointers and use that
-    let args_ptrs: Vec<_> = args
+    let args_ptrs: Vec<_> = args_cstr
         .iter()
         .map(|s| s.as_ptr())
         .chain(std::iter::once(std::ptr::null()))