How to parse /proc/pid/cmdline

Question

I\'m trying to split the cmdline of a process on Linux but it seems I cannot rely on it to be separated by \'\\0\' characters. Do you know why sometimes the \'\\0\' character is

Answer 1

A shot in the dark, but is it possible that \0 is separating terms and spaces are separating words within a term? For example,

myprog "foo bar" baz

might appear in /proc/pid/cmdline as...

/usr/bin/myprog\0foo bar\0baz

Complete guess here, I can't seem to find any spaces on one of my Linux boxes.