From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:58:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Attempting to pass command-line arguments before they've been
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Attempting to pass command-line arguments before they've been
implemented will fail.
Thanks to Josh Wiseman for pointing this out.
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diff --git a/doc/userprog.texi b/doc/userprog.texi
index 7512384..880fe46 100644
--- a/doc/userprog.texi
+++ b/doc/userprog.texi
@@ -468,6 +468,11 @@ in @func{setup_stack}.  That will work for any test program that doesn't
 examine its arguments, although its name will be printed as
 @code{(null)}.
 
+Until you implement argument passing, you should only run programs
+without passing command-line arguments.  Attempting to pass arguments to
+a program will include those arguments in the name of the program, which
+will probably fail.
+
 @item
 User memory access (@pxref{Accessing User Memory}).  All system calls
 need to read user memory.  Few system calls need to write to user