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RE: cygwin 1.5.11: execv doesn't set argv[0] on Windows programs


On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Chuck McDevitt wrote:

> argv and argc are concepts from the C runtime, not the Windows OS.
>
> The actual entry point to your program is to a routine that calls the
> initialization routines of the C library, then calls winMain.
>

Yes, certainly.  The point I was making was that the information was available
in a true win32 app.  David Korn implied that the WinMain call was the only
access to the calling arguments that were available to a win32 app.  That is
not true, as I showed.

dar


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