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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
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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...''