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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Fileutils 4.1 alpha 1 uploaded
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From: Jim Meyering <jim AT meyering DOT net>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:51:06 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 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

I'm pretty sure POSIX does not mandate it, but in the Unix world
it seems to be the de facto standard.

> 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?