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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:09:52 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:08:24 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> I tried to experiment with that with /proc/<pid>/cmdline. The first
> problem was that the arguments aren't space delimited, but broken up
> with zeroes.

That’s not a “problem”: it actually simplifies the parsing, because you 
can unambiguously extract the original command arguments without having to 
apply any complicated parsing/quoting/unquoting rules.