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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:00:53 +0100
From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
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Subject: Re: Changing argv[0] under Linux.
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    Hi Mark :)

> > In any event, a "whole line of text" isn't going to overrun it. 
> Looking at the code, it looks to me as if argv[0] can be any size up to
> _SC_ARG_MAX, with the restraining factor being that the environment
> variables and the other arguments must fit in the same space.
> Is this not correct?

    This is correct, but it is a maximum, not a minimum.

    Ra?l
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