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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Using argv to show process status
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Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 15:15:47 EDT
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In article <26253@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>Remember, this trick depends on a *quirk of the implementation*; vendors are
>under no obligation whatsoever to provide implementations with this quirk.

However, X3J11 did decide that one could modify the argv[] strings.
What is not guaranteed is their visibility outside the process.