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- From: ilepore@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Lepore)
- Subject: Re: Null arguments with ARGV
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.053521.8438@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 05:35:21 GMT
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- > store *argv[] in the parent, pass a pointer to it
-
- It's been done; it's called xArg. And quite a nice little standard it
- is too, very clean compared to ARGV.
-
- The problem is, Atari declared it to be anathema to multitasking OSes
- they had planned (but not announced) at the time: they didn't want child
- programs poking about in the parent's memory region, and quite rightly so
- under a multitasking OS that makes any attempt at isolating applications
- from each other for fault tolerance.
-
- --
- - Ian
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