[tahoe-dev] Fwd: [cap-talk] Don't put capabilities in argv?

[Ben Laurie]

Ben Hyde wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2008, at 6:00 PM, zooko wrote:
>> Argh
> 
>>> From: Kevin Reid <kpreid at mac.com>
>>>
> 
>>> unix systems reveal command-line arguments of all
>>> processes to all users.
> 
> The usual work around is to overwrite your argv.  In fact some people  
> enjoy
> displaying process status that way. <http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/readproctitle.html 

AIUI, that doesn't work on all OSes.

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