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From: Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com>
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Subject: Re: dladdr hax
To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:00:58 -0600 (CST)
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"Terry Lambert sez: "
> > My understanding of it is that it requires the full path be kept by execve().
> Actually, this isn't true.  It's pretty trivial to write and run a
> dladdr using program on a solaris box.

I just realized that on Solaris, it does appear to return argv[0].
This is why they put the hack in their wrapper scripts to attempt to pass the
full path name to the shell, which will obligingly put it in argv[0].

OK.  I concede that I am an idiot.  Thankyou very much.

Cheers,
Damon.