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On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Jim Meyering wrote:

> > I have a bunch of patches to feed back, now I've caught up with the latest
> > stable release. ;) The primary set is to the test suite to cope with DJGPP
> > programs reporting their names as e.g.: 'c:/djgpp/bin/cp' instead of just
> > 'cp'. (We discussed this before.)
> 
> Sorry, but I'm really not inclined to spend time tweaking *many* of
> the tests to work on systems where argv[0] != "cp" for commands like
> `cp a b'.

Does Posix even mandate this behavior?  Aren't there shells out there 
that put the full pathname of the executable into argv[0]?

Anyway, Richard, how about changing djstart.c to remove the leading 
directories from the value of argv[0]?  Can this screw up something?