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icedchai
on April 1, 2021
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Don’t use environment variables for configuration
The environment is inherited by child processes. I think that is a very important difference.
zokier
on April 1, 2021
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Of the relevant Linux syscalls neither fork or clone touch argv or environ at all, on the other hand execve requires passing both argv and envp explicitly
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