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From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: finding arguments using other than argv
Message-ID: <766@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 23:15:29 GMT
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Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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>Are a process' argc and argv keep anyplace other than on its stack? If
>so where, (like in the ublock, if so what element?)

No, a process' arguments live only within its address space.  Note,
too, that the process is free to muck with them in any way it pleases,
so things like ps don't always report the arguments with which a
process was started.

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