[FFmpeg-user] Parse environment variables in command line

Phil Turmel philip at turmel.org
Mon Apr 20 15:34:51 CEST 2015


On 04/20/2015 04:06 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le primidi 1er floréal, an CCXXIII, Phil Turmel a écrit :
>> ps gets its information from the files in /proc/ where you can find a
>> variety of information on running processes.  Among them is each
>> processes' 'environ' file, containing its environment.  So the
>> 'security' you are asking for is no new security at all.
> 
> Hello, man from the 1980's.

Sigh, yes.

> You will be glad to learn that this issue has
> been fixed long ago in all serious Unix implementations: process command
> line is public, but their environment is now private to each user.

Yes, thanks.  I will now withdraw in shame.  I didn't even think to look
at eviron's mode.

Phil



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