Re: Changing argv[0] under Linux.

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, DervishD wrote:

>     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 :)
>     Raśl
> 

They need to have space for _POSIX_PATH_MAX (512 bytes), to
claim POSIX compatibility so any POSIX system will have at
least 512 bytes available because the pathname of the executable
normally goes there.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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