Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:23:59 -0500 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: Changing argv[0] under Linux. |
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:56:35PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Well I just grepped through usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h and it > shows 255 (with this 'C' library) so you are probably right. > In any event, a "whole line of text" isn't going to overrun it.
Looking at the code, it looks to me as if argv[0] can be any size up to _SC_ARG_MAX, with the restraining factor being that the environment variables and the other arguments must fit in the same space.
Is this not correct?
mark
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