cygwin 1.5.11: execv doesn't set argv[0] on Windows programs

[David A. Rogers]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

>   There is no concept of argv in the windows OS itself.  The application gets the
> entire commmand line as one unparsed string.
>

Actually, this is not true.  Even in a true win32 app, argc and argv are
available, they are just not as obvious. The following program will print
the location of the exe.

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#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdlib.h"  // for __argc and __argv
#include "stdio.h"  // for sprintf


int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                     HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                     LPSTR     lpCmdLine,
                     int       nCmdShow)
{
	char msg[300];

	sprintf(msg, "%d args.  Arg0 is %s", __argc, __argv[0]);
	MessageBox(NULL, msg, "argv test", MB_OK);

	return 0;
}

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