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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:14:20 +0100
From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing argv[0] under Linux.
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    Hi Richard :)

> > libc, but I think that is more on the kernel side, that's why I ask
> Last time I checked argv[0] was 512 bytes. Many daemons overwrite
> it with no problem.

    Any header where I can see the length for argv[0] or is this some
kind of unoficial standard? Just doing strcpy seems dangerous to me
(you can read 'paranoid'...).

    Thanks a lot for your answer, Richard :)
    Ra?l
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