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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:57:48 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Help with arg passing
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> 
> > Because I want
> > to see my patch in libc sources, I have a question regarding above:
> > is it acceptable to turn on !proxy method for calling all DJGPP programs
> > in 2.04 ?
> 
> We could do that.  But could you first explain why is this required
> for symlink support?  IMHO, it's not a good idea to have differences
> in functionality that depend on the way programs are called.
> (Differences in how argv[0] looks are bad, but at least they don't
> change anything in how the program is invoked and run.)

The reason - incorrect argv[0] if program is called through symlink.
I can't make called program to see the name of symlink in its argv[0],
it will see its exe name instead.

Another reason - currently the same program with LFN .exe called
two times with and without long command line will see two different 
argv[0].

Laurynas Biveinis