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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 34180@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA,
	Paul Eggert <paul.eggert@verizon.net>
Subject: bug#34180: 27.0.50; argv[0] used incorrectly to find the .pdmp
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:02:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnmjhd6j.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83va2a3z0d.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 27 Jan 2019 17:23:46 +0200")

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.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-11 14:02 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 [this message]
2021-10-11 14:04       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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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