Subject: Re: argv[0] has no full path name on winnt
From: [email-masked] (Fergus Henderson)

13 Jul 1997 21:02:01 -0700
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Arlindo da Silva <[email-masked]> writes:

>I have this wrapper application which uses argv[0] to figure out the
>directory where it was been installed, setting up all the other
>necessary enviroment variables before firing up the main
>application.

cygwin32 is a Unix emulation library, and on Unix there is no
guarantee that argv[0] will contain the full path.

So if you want the full path name, you should use the appropriate
Win32 function to get it (as someone else advised), not argv[0].

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