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From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: argv null terminated in main()?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:54:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <414AEC9B.2030807@pbl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095368471.23579.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2004-09-16 at 22:26, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>>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.

Thanks for quick answer.  I didn't know to which degree was Linux SuS v3 
compliant, so I said better to ask ;-)

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Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>    Pollard Banknote Limited
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-17 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-16 21:26 argv null terminated in main()? Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-09-16 21:01 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-17 13:54   ` Aleksandar Milivojevic [this message]

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