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Date: | Mon, 28 Mar 94 14:58:20 -0500 |
From: | dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie) |
To: | jon AT halsp DOT hitachi DOT com |
Cc: | dave AT babel DOT ho DOT att DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Subject: | Re: argv[0] problem (unwanted path in printout) |
> >Also, I think UNIX C runtime libraries DON'T put the full path name in > >argv[0]. Argv[0] contains whatever the program that called exec() > >puts in it. On UNIX, ksh seems to put whatever the user typed, not > >the fully qualified path. I don't know about other shells. > > Some other Unix shells: ksh puts full path for scripts ($0) but what you typed for binary programs (argv[0]). Very disappointing.
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