[draft] RFC: making aux vector information available externally

Tom Gall tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jan 6 04:15:00 GMT 2006




On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Tom Gall wrote:
> > User applications today can get to the aux vector via argv 
> 
> Whoever does this should be banned.  The auxv is available through
> /proc/self/auxv.  That's enough.

As one of my physics profs used to say

"I see said the blind man who picked up his hammer and saw"

Thank you!

Tom




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