From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 34180@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA,
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#34180: 27.0.50; argv[0] used incorrectly to find the .pdmp
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:04:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfx7hd3s.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnmjhd6j.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:02:44 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Wouldn't it be better to have a method of finding the absolute file
>> name of the executable from which the process was started, regardless
>> of what argv[0] says? The way to do that is system-dependent (on
>> GNU/Linux, I believe you need to readlink ("/proc/self/exe") or
>> somesuch, for example), but AFAIK this can be done on all platforms we
>> support.
>
> It looks like find_executable from progreloc in gnulib provides a
> portable interface for this? I've added Paul to the CCs.
(Wrong address for Paul; resending to fix that.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-11 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-23 16:07 bug#34180: 27.0.50; argv[0] used incorrectly to find the .pdmp Stefan Monnier
2019-01-27 3:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-27 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-11 14:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-11 14:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-10-11 15:10 ` Paul Eggert
2021-10-11 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-11 20:13 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-10-12 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-12 10:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 11:54 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-10-12 11:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-11 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-12 10:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-11 21:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-12 12:27 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-10-12 16:24 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-10-12 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-12 16:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
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