[PATCH] sys.modify_argv()

Paul Rubin phr-n2001 at nightsong.com
Sat Aug 25 02:04:09 EDT 2001


"John Roth" <johnroth at ameritech.net> writes:
> Why do you want to do this? Aren't there enough ways of
> confusing yourself without adding a method of lying to yourself
> about your input parameters?

There was a thread about this a few days ago.  The idea is to run a
command with a password on the command line, and not have the password
stay visible to "ps" through the whole time the process is running.



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