Re: /proc/self/exename -> exe ? (Re: Retrieving name of executable)

[Chris January <chris at atomice dot net>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 28 23:36, Anthony Heading wrote:
>
> > 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...
>
>
> The old exename was a file containing the path, the new exe is a symlink
> pointing to the binary.  This is how it's done on Linux.

Maybe exename should be kept for backwards compatibility?

Chris

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