Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:50:05 +0100 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: Changing argv[0] under Linux. |
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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.
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