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Subject: Re: GCC and getcwd
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 04:23:26 -0800
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> >This is not the Unix way to do things. The Unix API does not provide any
way for a process to find out where its executable image is located (it
might not exist anymore!) See:
> >http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_2.html#SEC23

This isn't the Windows NT way to do things, either.  Processes only in name
have an EXE associated with them.  It is the fact that kernel32.dll's
CreateProcessW implements process creation by using memory-mapped files with
the EXE that associates an EXE filename with a process (and locks the EXE
file against writing or deleting).

-- Barubary


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