On 04.07.2014 02:14, Gabriela Gibson wrote: > I also looked at the C90 standard because I thought maybe they defined > argv as immutable (since it should not complain about being const with > this type of main declaration I think) and this is what is says: > > "The parameters argc and argv and the strings pointed to by the argv > array shall > be modifiable by the program, and retain their last-stored values > between program > startup and program termination." > > This seems a bit ambiguous --- so it's changeable, but between start > up and termination they retain their value?
Read your quote again. "they retain the *last-stored* value". > So, that is maybe why the kernel's info isn't changing but the args > can be modified? I must point out that "the" (Linux?) kernel does not have to comply with the C language standard. The info that the kernel stores may have exactly nothing to do with the argument array that's in the process memory space. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
