On 08/13/2012 06:16 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net>
---
  include/xorg/gtest/xorg-gtest-process.h | 6 ++++--
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/xorg/gtest/xorg-gtest-process.h 
b/include/xorg/gtest/xorg-gtest-process.h
index 69b3b34..8cf60e3 100644
--- a/include/xorg/gtest/xorg-gtest-process.h
+++ b/include/xorg/gtest/xorg-gtest-process.h
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ class Process {
     * See 'man execvp' for further information on the variadic argument list.
     *
     * @param program The program to start.
-   * @param args Variadic list of arguments passed to the program.
+   * @param args Variadic list of arguments passed to the program. This list
+   * must end in a zero-length string ("", not NULL).
     *
     * @throws std::runtime_error on failure.
     *
@@ -135,7 +136,8 @@ class Process {
    /**
     * Starts a program as a child process.
     *
-   * Takes a variadic list of arguments passed to the program.
+   * Takes a variadic list of arguments passed to the program. This list
+   * must end in a zero-length string ("", not NULL).
     * See 'man execvp' for further information on the variadic argument list.
     *
     * @param program The program to start.


Hmmm... I wish we had though to use a NULL sentinel for the varargs version. We could have used the gcc sentinel function attribute to help warn people of bad usage. I suppose it's too late to change now that we've released it.

Reviewed-by: Chase Douglas <chase.doug...@canonical.com>

And pushed as commit 4b8f4dd2b2be2bb036f75403ef4cef31d280f70b.

Thanks!
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