Re: argv null terminated in main()?

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-09-16 at 22:26, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> I was looking for info on this question on web and in documentation, but 
> couldn't find it documented anywhere.
> 
> The question is, after call to execve() system call, and after new image 
> is loaded, is argv (as passed to main() function of new program) NULL 
> terminated or not in Linux?

Yes. execve is documented in SuS v3 which you can find on the web. See
also info glibc which does have a lot more information on other useful
extensions like saved argv0 copies.


Alan

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