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From: tone@leland.Stanford.EDU (Tony Lin)
Subject: Erasing command-line arguments
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Hi everyone!

  Does anyone know if there is a way for a process to erase it's command
line arguments from memory?  I'm writing in C for a SPARCstation running SunOS
Unix.  Any help or tips will be greatly appreciated.  Please email replies
to tlin@xenon.Stanford.EDU

						Tony