Arguments to exec* functions.

[Erik Max Francis]

Neil Cerutti wrote:

> Fredrik Lundh says it follows the POSIX standard; that explains
> the semantics of argv, but it doesn't explain why the os module
> wraps it this way. Is it often useful to run a process and lie to
> it about its own name?

The reason is because that's what the POSIX standard says.  It doesn't
make much sense to _hide_ functionality from a well-defined standard
that you're supporting, even if it doesn't seem all that directly
useful.  Also, consistency with a widespread API is never a bad thing.

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