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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Handle invalid argc gently

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Sep 14, 2006, 16:53 UTC
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"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> writes:
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>> What is the valid reason to do execlp("git", NULL, NULL)?
>
> Personally I do not plan to execute git this way on regular basis, indeed. :)
>
> But argc == 0 is allowed, so why should git crash?

Oh, no I was not arguing for making git crash. I was just trying to learn if there is a valid reason to choose to, or common misconfiguration that causes it to, run with ac == 0, since I did not think of any.

It is good to be extra careful and defensive -- I just wanted to know if there is more to it.

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