From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 18 16:55:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fly.lglobus.ru (fly.lglobus.ru [195.34.224.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBE614DEE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rover@fly.lglobus.ru) Received: (from rover@localhost) by fly.lglobus.ru (8.9.3/8.9.2) id DAA64708; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 03:57:01 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from rover) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 03:57:01 +0300 From: "Oleg V. Volkov" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there correct way for program to read from itself? Message-ID: <19991119035701.A64685@fly.lglobus.ru> Reply-To: rover@lglobus.ru References: <19991119024421.B63985@fly.lglobus.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Organization: -=/ SR 13 /=- Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 04:51:43PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Oleg V. Volkov wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:09:19PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>>>> I think procfs would be even more helpful (unless the 'file' is still >>>>> done, or is it?) You guys should have gotten my profs suggestion >>>>> but someone obviously dropped cc lines. *sigh* >>>>> And Greg is definetly right, you should be able to look around to >>>>> solve this problem, if the problem is then PATH, then searching >>>>> the path is what you need to do, but I still think procfs offers >>>>> what you need. >>>>> man 5 procfs. >>>>Look a this dump: [skip] >>>> I just don't know why lseek fails. >>> I don't know either, perhaps the source to this errant program >>> would be helpful? >>> This looks like a Linux program, just what are you trying to by >>> opening 'exe'? You obviously didn't read the procfs manpage, please >>> do read it and then follow up. >> Oops! Thanks for point! Damn! Where i was looking at? Of course exe should >> be file! > not only that, but even though this is a test program you should have > taken the extra minute to check the return value from open(). That's not my program, i just helping someone to make his linux program work with FreeBSD too. But that's good point. -- Oleg V. Volkov aka Rover EH: LCM Rover Join Elite Imperial Fleet! http://www.emperorshammer.org E-mail redirector: sr-13@mail.ru (always up) -=/ SR 13 /=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message