FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:45:16 +0100
Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> > A local file is subject to the same inspection as the process's
> > environment.  It is thus no better or worse than my solution.
> 
> At least Linux and HP-UX does not require such things to get access to
> command line. Environment perhaps required it but ps returns the
> expanded command line

I see.  Yes, that makes sense.  The only command line ps(1) could show
would be the one passed to the kernel after the shell finished
processing any metacharacters.  

> I vote for getopt too!

        :-)

> However I think that all tools support reading from standard input too
> so the patch would only align datacopy to other tools.

OK.  I withdraw my objection.  Let's apply it.  I continue to hope
someone will add Kerberos to datacopy, too.  

--jkl