How does Sendmail know how it was invoked?

[Don Hinton]

> I don't think that's right. As I understand it, the argv argument to
> execve() is passed-on directly as the child processes arguments, and
> the parent can write whatever it likes into argv[0] - it's only
> convention that it's a filename. So mailwrapper passes its own
> argv[0] as sendmail's argv[0]. And so sendmail behaves as if it had been
> invoked as mailq or whatever.

You're exactly right.  I misread the man file and did a little test to confirm 
it. 

thanks...
don
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