From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: argv null terminated in main()?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:01:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095368471.23579.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414A04F6.8040106@pbl.ca>
On Iau, 2004-09-16 at 22:26, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> I was looking for info on this question on web and in documentation, but
> couldn't find it documented anywhere.
>
> The question is, after call to execve() system call, and after new image
> is loaded, is argv (as passed to main() function of new program) NULL
> terminated or not in Linux?
Yes. execve is documented in SuS v3 which you can find on the web. See
also info glibc which does have a lot more information on other useful
extensions like saved argv0 copies.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-16 22:03 UTC|newest]
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2004-09-16 21:26 argv null terminated in main()? Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-09-16 21:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-17 13:54 ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
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