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Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script



On  0, Nicos Gollan <ngollan@spearhead.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 May 2002 12:02, perceval anichini wrote:
> 
> > Moreover, argv + sizeof (argv[1]) is equal to argv[4] (as sizeof (char*) =
> > 4) ...
> 
> <nitpick>And then a non-32bit system came along...</nitpick>

No no no no no, that's why I used sizeof( char* ), so that it was
independant of the system word size.  argv + sizeof( argv[1] ) !=
argv[4], since the compiler is bright enough to figure out that
argv[1] is not a combination of bytes from the first and second
elements of the array.

Tom
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