Fwd: why are init's arguments wiped ?

[Mike Frysinger]

On 01 Feb 2016 22:33, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 01/02/2016 18:10, Mike Frysinger a écrit :
> > it makes a lot of sense when you fork children that have specific purposes.
> > rather than just seeing the program's name 4 times, it's more helpful for
> > them to be broken up.
>
>      prctl() can be used for that, with the operation code PR_SET_NAME. 
> It does not change the command line.

right, but that has its own limitations:
- it's new to linux-2.6.9
- can only set the name
- is limited to 16 bytes
- can't change command line args

so we're still stuck with this behavior of modifying the argv mem directly :(
-mike
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