Re: GNUNET_OS_start_process and process arguments

[Alessio Vanni]

Christian Grothoff <grothoff@gnunet.org> writes:

> That's intentional. Same as with 'exec'. First argument is the file
> name/path to the binary, and argv[0] is separate. See 'exec'. In
> general, simply pass the binary name twice.
>
> -Christian

Thank you for the explanation.

Since the documentation simply says "start a process", I thought the
argv[0] was implicitly set by the function like some other higher-level
libraries/languages do.

It's fine if it mimics exec, I was just surprised by this.

Thanks,
A.V.