Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:8985 comp.sources.d:2202 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!basser!boyd From: boyd@basser.oz (Boyd Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Finding where an executable was run from -- a proposal. Keywords: brain-death, diazepam Message-ID: <1263@basser.oz> Date: 31 May 88 04:45:43 GMT References: <2272@isis.UUCP> <1889@mhres.mh.nl> Reply-To: boyd@basser.oz (Boyd Roberts) Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia Lines: 15 You people are sick. The best you're going to get is to change the command interpretter to make argv[0] == the pathname passed to exec. Then it's a convention. Security, ``..'' & symbolic links be buggered. I don't believe this discussion. This is why Roche made diazepam (Valium). With 5mg of diazepam comp.unix.wizards would become bearable (laughable). Disclaimer: what wizards? Boyd Roberts boyd@basser.cs.su.oz ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''