On 15 June 2012 03:40, Andrew Hills <hills...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you don't want the password argument to appear in ps/top listings, > you can write over argv like curl does (see references to > cleanarg(char*) in src/tool_getparam.c and the function definition in > tool_paramhlp.c:133, at least in curl-7.26.0). I'm pretty sure that > writable argv is guaranteed by C89, although that doesn't really mean > anything in practice... but it works on Linux.
You can't depend on this - what if another user's process snapshots ii's argv array before ii overwrites it? Rob
