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Date: | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:47:07 +0100 |
From: | Chris January <chris AT atomice DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: /proc/self/exename -> exe ? (Re: Retrieving name of executable) |
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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 28 23:36, Anthony Heading wrote: > >>On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:35:28PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:39:23AM -0800, Earl Chew wrote: >>> >>>>I think the name of the current executable is stored in myself->progname >>>>within cygwin1.dll. >>>> >>>>The more easily accessible __progname returns the basename of the >>>>executable. >>>> >>>>Is there a way for an application to obtain myself->program, other >>>>than resorting to raw win32 call to GetModuleFileName()? >>> >>>argv[0] or __argv[0] or /proc/self/exename >> >>Has this link been renamed? It appears to have changed to >>/proc/self/exe now, which has broken a lot of my programs... > > > The old exename was a file containing the path, the new exe is a symlink > pointing to the binary. This is how it's done on Linux. Maybe exename should be kept for backwards compatibility? Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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