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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko@gmail.com>
Cc: 29122@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29122: eshell passes ARGV[0] as full path to executable
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:02:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tvybvfx9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF4sQCM56=6y=1Lrg9RAQo+ui2kRSqRVHiarYYX=i6FGDv3C_A@mail.gmail.com> (message from Yegor Timoshenko on Fri, 3 Nov 2017 09:22:59 +0000)

> From: Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 09:22:59 +0000
> 
> The use case here is when programs print usage information.
> 
> Usage: ./a.out command [arguments...]
> Usage: /home/user/path/to/a.out command [arguments...]
> 
> The former reads better and is generally expected from shells.

You will get the same problem when a.out is found by searching PATH.
And on Windows, your program will almost always get argv[0] in
absolute form.  So you need to take care of that anyway, or else your
program will sometimes produce that less readable output.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-03 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-03  7:33 bug#29122: eshell passes ARGV[0] as full path to executable Yegor Timoshenko
2017-11-03  8:30 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-03  8:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <CAF4sQCM56=6y=1Lrg9RAQo+ui2kRSqRVHiarYYX=i6FGDv3C_A@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-03 10:02       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-13  3:29         ` Noam Postavsky

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