Why not just pass the argument from a file? Exec --flag `cat password-file`
Sorry for top posting On Jun 14, 2012 10:41 PM, "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. > > --Andrew Hills > >
