Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> > Note that http://user:pass@server/path/ /should/ work (but that would >> > need validation), though not a good idea on command line. >> >> Well, now that the programs using URLs are all builtins, we can actually >> do something about it. We can edit out the "user[:pass]@" part out of >> argv, which usually means that "ps" will not see it anymore. > > Wouldn't there still be a race condition for publicly broadcasting your > password via ps? In addition, I think on some Unices overwriting argv[0] does not have the effect Dscho is aiming for. I thought we do discourage [:pass] part in our documentation. -- 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
