Re: pptpctrl invocation

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 11:49:50PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> while looking for some other issue, I came across the following line
> in pptpmanager.c:486:
> 
> |       ctrl_argv[pptpctrl_argc++] = PPTP_CTRL_BIN "                                ";
> 
> That existed since the initial commit, but what's the reason for
> padding extra spaces after the program's path? 

My guess is padding that will be written to later by the forked
process; what does it look like when running normally?  See inststr.c
and my_setproctitle in compat.c.

If so, a comment patch would be welcome.

> The only thing I can
> think of was to hide further parameters from from "ps" output. That
> was rather weird, though.
> 
>     Christoph
> 
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