[fpc-devel] TProcess empty parameter

[Sven Barth]

Am 07.05.2015 14:41 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>:
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> On Thu, 7 May 2015, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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>> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
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>>>> Since NIL is a termination of an array of pchar in C that is not ok.
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>>> if that were the case, argc would not have been introduced,
>>> which is why I doubt the use of this argument ?
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>> Where is argc on the calling side? In the parameters of ExecVE ? Right.
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>>> C code that regards nil as the last element of the argv array is just
>>> wrong.
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>> IMHO *nix is not terribly well designed. Probably the multitude of
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>> and being interwoven with C prohibited doing massive cleanups.
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> This argument can be applied to any OS older than 5 years :)
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> Backwards compatibility probably prevents any OS from being considered
'well designed'.
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In our company's OS we shuffle around quite frequently to improve the
design and it's older than 5 years already. But then again we don't have
any users except ourselves to care for currently... ^^

Regards,
Sven
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