libps

[Neal H Walfield <neal@walfield.org>]

Hi All,

ps.h states on lines 257-260 that:
/* The process's argv, as a string with each element separated by '\0'.  */
char *args;
/* The length of ARGS.  */
unsigned args_len;


It actually contains that plus an extra null at the end.

If this is really a bug, this should fix it:

--- /src/hurd/proc/info.c       Sun Jul 11 01:32:01 1999
+++ info.c      Sun Jan 23 01:24:12 2000
@@ -306,6 +306,9 @@
       bp += len;
       free (string);
     }
+  /* We always have an extra null at the end, remove it */
+  bp--;
+
   free (vector);
   *buflen = bp - (char *) *buf;
   return 0;

HSFYA
-Neal

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