Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:50:14 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> Cc: audit-bin@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hmm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970219234633.405v-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199702200739.IAA04720@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote:
> > > It seems a bit strange to me. Just like the first part of the line
> > > underneath btw:
> > > if (*p != '\0' && p[strlen(p) - 1] == '[') {
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > that makes sure that the strlen(p) > 0... you wouldn't want to access
> > p[-1] would you??
> >
> > hope this helps... ttyl..
> >
>
> But p points to argv[0]. According to me that is always non-empty.
but as someone pointed out... with a direct exec it can be otherwise... I
just wrote a couple programs that proved this... here's the output:
number args: 3
argv[0} len(0):
argv[1} len(6): parama
argv[2} len(6): paramb
basicly the program I ran did:
char *strings[] = { "", "parama", "paramb", 0};
execv("dump", strings);
and dump was a program that did basicly:
for(i=0;i<argc;i++)
printf("argv[%d} len(%d): %s\n", i, strlen(argv[i]), argv[i]);
so it is possible...
and thanks for making me do the research... always helpful to learn by
experience this sort of thing... :) ttyl...
John-Mark
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