Re: [PATCH] progname: don't segfault when argv is NULL

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> The POSIX spec for execve says this about envp:
> 
>     The argument envp is an array of character pointers to null-terminated
>     strings. These strings shall constitute the environment for the new
>     process image. The envp array is terminated by a null pointer.
> 
> which I seem to recall means (probably due to the definition of "array of
> strings") that it must be non-NULL.

Indeed. It would make sense to let Ulrich change the glibc declarations of
execve, fexecve, execvpe.

Bruno