Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Contents of argv[0] Message-ID: <1989Aug20.023248.28923@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <9002@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <1017@virtech.UUCP> <10094@csli.Stanford.EDU> <1935@ifi.uio.no> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 89 02:32:48 GMT In article <1935@ifi.uio.no> gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr) writes: >> This effectively means that in general, argv[0] cannot >> be treated as a reliable source for the path name! [RTFM] > >Is there anything that can be relied upon for this? No. >I want to know which directory the executable file resided in. In current systems you simply don't know. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu