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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:36:05 -0500
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: /proc/self/exename -> exe ? (Re: Retrieving name of executable)
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From: Anthony Heading <ajrh AT ajrh DOT net>

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...

~=> ls -l /proc/$$  
total 0
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 cmdline
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 ctty
lrwxrwxrwx  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 cwd -> /home/ajrh
lrwxrwxrwx  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 exe -> /usr/bin/zsh
dr-xr-xr-x  2 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:33 fd
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 gid
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 maps
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 pgid
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 ppid
lrwxrwxrwx  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 root -> /
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 sid
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 stat
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 statm
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 status
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 uid
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 winexename
-r--r--r--  1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 winpid

A

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