Re: Changing argv[0] under Linux.

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Richard B. Johnson <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, DervishD wrote:
>
>>     I'm not sure whether this issue belongs to the kernel or to the
>> libc, but I think that is more on the kernel side, that's why I ask
>> here.
>
>Last time I checked argv[0] was 512 bytes. Many daemons overwrite
>it with no problem.

No cigar. This stuff is all set up by the kernel on the stack;
in order you have

	Top of stack at 0xbfffffff
	environ[0]\0environ[1]\0\0	From high ..
	argv[0]\0argv[1]\0\0
	*environ[];
	*argv[];			.. to low.

The kernel only reserves space as needed. If you have an empty
environment, and you copy 512 bytes over argv[0], you'll end
up with a SEGV.

If you want to modify argv[0] etc, loop over argv[], count howmuch
space there is (strlen(argv[0] + 1 + strlen(argv[1] + 1 ... etc)
and make sure you do NOT write a string longer than that. Also
make sure that you end the string with a double \0

Mike.
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