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RE: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP


On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> > Sent: 01 October 2004 15:31
>
> > > Almost; right issue, wrong problem. It turned out not that there
> > > wasn't a terminating NULL but that there was an extra one, one past
> > > where it should have been! This kind of problem is, apparently,
> > > _very_ easy to overlook and I guess we just got away with it in the
> > > past. -shrug-
> >
> > Hmm, an extra NULL shouldn't have any effect -- execv stops
> > at the first one, IIRC.
>
>   Yes, but if you've created an argv[] on the stack to pass to execv, and it has
> just the right number of entries, and you go and write an extra NULL into
> it................
>
>   IOW, the extra NULL does have an effect... just not on execv!

Ah.  Argm.  Ungh.  Ehm.  (a whole list of other sounds, that together mean
"thanks for the correction"). :-)
	Igor
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