Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:43:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: rover@lglobus.ru, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there correct way for program to read from itself? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911191643160.22999-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <19991119113720.28959@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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Ah, makes perfect sense. Thanks.
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> main (int argc, char *argv [])
> {
> int me = open (argv [0], O_RDONLY);
>
>argv [0] gets set to the name of the program (copyme). If I start it
>via PATH, it's still just "copyme". open(2) will fail if it doesn't
>find it in the current directory, and worse, if it *does* find a file
>of the same name, it will open it instead of the correct file.
>
>Greg
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