From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Finding the dump Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:36:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83munr8jb1.fsf@gnu.org> <838szb8ey9.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0oj62bc.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef8z4g1m.fsf@igel.home> <838sz75u7p.fsf@gnu.org> <877eer4e4x.fsf@igel.home> <835zub5p3i.fsf@gnu.org> <8736pf408v.fsf@igel.home> <83womq3z5c.fsf@gnu.org> <871s4yxfvb.fsf@igel.home> <83o9823xcq.fsf@gnu.org> <87womqvyy4.fsf@igel.home> <4f30b2b598e71d2c6ad766a3da8e4a33.squirrel@dancol.org> <87o982vszn.fsf@igel.home> <87k1ipx3jq.fsf@igel.home> <87bm41wzmv.fsf@igel.home> <608533e75f41da3e36e191f8a670af05.squirrel@dancol.org> <725a9f97-8bb5-4592-2512-dbd422023f51@cs.ucla.edu> <6611df71-c89e-d4ce-5db7-00edec98a9f5@cs.ucla.edu> <83bm3wynuw.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhrewt64.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="173224"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dancol@dancol.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 03 05:42:20 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gq9bn-000ipp-NF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2019 05:42:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51289 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gq9bg-0001tO-VI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:42:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gq9ad-0001qY-UH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:41:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58001) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gq9WV-0005PE-9f; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:36:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gq9WV-0006PB-4d; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:36:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83zhrewt64.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 02 Feb 2019 09:22:59 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232921 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I mean the case where a symlink is to an explicit absolute file name, > and the related files can be found only if you know the target of the > symlink. But AFAIK argv[0] will not give you the resolved target file > name, it will give you the symlink name. If you look for the file in PATH you will find the symlink, and can then find the right directory. But maybe it is not worth worrying about or documenting specially. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)