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From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: modifying parent's environment, etc.
Message-ID: <525@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 17:30:22 GMT
References: <2158@pur-phy> <1030@quintus.UUCP> <1495@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Organization: VI Software Development, Boise, Idaho
Lines: 15

In article <1495@vsedev.VSE.COM> (James Logan III) writes:
>
> Under System V the arguments are stored in the character array
> u_psargs[PSARGSZ] in the u structure.  The u structure is usually
> read directly from the swap device based on addresses found in 
> the process table.

The "old" documentation for crypt(1) stated that since the arguments
are potentially visible to users executing ps(1), "crypt takes care
to destroy any record of the key immediately upon entry".  I see that
that line has now been deleted from from the manual entry for UNIX V.
--
John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID  83707, (208) 343-1865

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