On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:53:36AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> >> 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.
Well, the execlp example is somewhat dragged in.
More common case is execvp:
char *argv[] = { NULL };
execvp("git", argv);
The argv array may be empty for various reasons, e.g. pointer arithmetic
mistakes.
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