From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:19:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk3oh6m7y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831uapf4de.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:05 +0300")
> No one picked up that gauntlet. One piece of the puzzle that is still
> missing (at least as far as I'm concerned) for its solution is how to
> reliably determine on Posix platforms the directory where the invoked
> Emacs executable lives.
100% reliable can't be done, I think.
> I vaguely remember that the value of argv[0] is unreliable, and
> therefore even searching for it on PATH won't do.
Indeed. That's the best we can do, AFAIK.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-05 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 17:45 Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-04 22:51 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-04 23:03 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-05 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 8:48 ` chad
2013-04-05 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-05 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-04-05 15:20 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-05 17:32 ` chad
2013-04-04 23:16 ` Andy Moreton
2013-04-05 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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