Re: [PATCH] NULL-terminate list of arguments in server-mode

[Stephen Rasku]

Derek Price wrote:
>
>Alexey Mahotkin wrote:
>
>> I've been implementing the "acl" command and was bitten by the fact
>> that serve_argument() does not NULL-terminates a list of arguments
>> received from the client.  This does no harm because existing
>> server-side code always uses something like
>>
>>             for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
>>
>> and never something like
>>
>>             for (; *argv; argv++)
>>
>> I'd like to do the latter (and it's obviously good to have more
>> traditional argv[]), so here is the patch:
>
>Is this really traditional?  I've never seen it in over 10 years of C
>programming.  Can you point me at the appropriate standard?
>

I think he's talking about the argv[] array, not the programming 
idiom.  In my experience, argv[argc] == NULL.

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