The Old New Thing

Why does the CreateProcess function modify its input command line?

June 1, 2009 Jun 1, 2009 06/1/09

Raymond Chen

One of the nasty gotchas of the function is that the parameter must be a mutable pointer. If you pass a pointer to memory that cannot be written to (for example, a pointer to a page that is marked ), then you might crash. Commenter Ritchie wonders why this parameter is so weird. Basically, somebody back in the 1980's wanted to avoid ...