Is it possible to hide process args from 'ps -ef'?? (Recap)

[Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA]

As quoted from <1991Apr24.042539.20069 at mp.cs.niu.edu> by bennett at mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett):
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| of looking at *argv[].  In other words, the morons who wrote the data
| base program in question should have been roundly chastised by their 
| management.  The product should never have been allowed out the door
| in a form like that.  The data base program should be fixed.  There is
| no need whatsoever to adulterate the operating system to fix a third-
| party software vendor's bungling.  The program should *also* turn off
| the echo before reading the password.  After all, it *is* a *password*
| that the program is requiring.
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The program (Oracle) was designed for IBM mainframes and block-mode terminals.
What else can you expect from such a losing origin?

++Brandon
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