/proc/<pid>/cmdline and udhcpcd

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Matt Whitlock wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 March 2014, at 1:19 pm, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> > But really, this is not an `init' question, as I see it.  It's
> > about keeping the original/unmodified program arguments in
> > /proc/<pid>/cmdline.
> >
> > I know of no other program doing such sort of thing, although I
> > think I understand the reason behind this particular way of
> > handling the '-x' option argument in udhcpc.
>
> Tons of programs modify their argv arrays.

Alright, you know better.

> Anything that uses strtok to split arguments at delimiters will do
> it.

Yes, there's still much to learn.  Do you happen to know of some
popular examples?

> One should never assume that /proc/<pid>/cmdline will contain
> the command line as it was originally used to execute the process.

Do you happen to know of some reliable reference text stating that?


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian