On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:32:27AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > 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 so, too, but I couldn't find any mention of it online. For curiosity's sake, do you happen to know offhand any platform where this doesn't work (of course, Dscho is really proposing overwriting argv[i], but I don't know if that makes a difference to the portability)? -Peff -- 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