Re: EMX runtime and command line arguments

Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse-qlYHBhoNh+/[email protected]> Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:00:25 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ide.emx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:44:51PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> I have to correct the two of us: if an emx program calls an emx program,
> the argv elements are passed separately and no parsing will be done.

I think this was true in 1992.  I do not remember anything like this
happening nowadays.  But, of course, I may be wrong...

> > The original pair of strings *might* be available through the PIB
> > - but it may be that it is written over by EMX (I doubt this, but
> > I'm not completely sure - and do not rememeber).

> No, emx doesn't overwrite the original command line.

Thanks.  I remember that the stack is used during startup; did not
remember whether it is used to keep *argv, or **argv.

Ilya