Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:19:32 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Patryk Zadarnowski <patrykz@mycenae.ilion.eu.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: environment strings Message-ID: <37785764.F63593AE@softweyr.com> References: <19990629095659.B86806@freebie.lemis.com> <199906290218.MAA29451@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> <19990629121313.B85121@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at 12:18:07 +1000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote:
> >
> > This is of course correct except for the `undocumented' claim. The
> > `envp' has been documented as the third argument to main() since the
> > Pharaons (well, not quite ;). Apparently AT&T UNIX even has a
> > (documented) five-parameter main().
>
> This is news to me. Can you point to the documentation?
>
> > Besides, the `envp' argument is a recommended extension in ISO/ANSI
> > C, so you can hardly say that it's undocumented.
>
> Hmm. I don't have the Standard here, but I've dug around and found a
> couple of references to the third parameter, an "optional extension".
> I think the real problem is that K&R didn't describe it: it was
> introduced in the Seventh Edition, which came after K&R.
Time for a main() man page? Where would it go? Section 2, 3, or 9?
Hmm...
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