From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:47:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.
Message-ID: <20080710084728.GA6199@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5fuqjn8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:32:27AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Wouldn't there still be a race condition for publicly broadcasting your
> > password via ps?
> 
> In addition, I think on some Unices overwriting argv[0] does not have the
> effect Dscho is aiming for.

I thought so, too, but I couldn't find any mention of it online.  For
curiosity's sake, do you happen to know offhand any platform where this
doesn't work (of course, Dscho is really proposing overwriting argv[i],
but I don't know if that makes a difference to the portability)?

-Peff