"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> What is the valid reason to do execlp("git", NULL, NULL)? > > Personally I do not plan to execute git this way on regular basis, indeed. :) > > But argc == 0 is allowed, so why should git crash? Oh, no I was not arguing for making git crash. I was just trying to learn if there is a valid reason to choose to, or common misconfiguration that causes it to, run with ac == 0, since I did not think of any. It is good to be extra careful and defensive -- I just wanted to know if there is more to it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html