Re: Changing argv[0] under Linux.

[DervishD]

    Hi Richard :)

> >     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'...).
> 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.

    Enough for me, then. Thanks a lot :)) Just one more thing: in my
Single Unix Spec v3 says that the minimum value of _POSIX_PATH_MAX is
256, not 512, and the libc manual says just the same :??

    Anyway, 256 bytes is a fair large amount ;))))

    Thanks again, Richard.

    Raśl