Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: /proc/self/exename -> exe ? (Re: Retrieving name of executable) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:19:09 -0800 Message-ID: <23AA05B1B7171647BC38C5D761900EA401931A71@DF-SEADOG-MSG.exchange.corp.microsoft.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Stephan Mueller" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Mar 2005 23:21:48.0669 (UTC) FILETIME=[3F28E2D0:01C5357F] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j2UNM7B0013437 ... but perhaps you can deprecate it. For example, have it take an ever increasing amount of time to open each time it's referenced :-) stephan(); -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:12 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /proc/self/exename -> exe ? (Re: Retrieving name of executable) On Mar 29 09:47, Chris January wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >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? Sigh. Ok, I reverted the removal of exename. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/ -- 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/