Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:25:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Don Read <dread@texas.net> Cc: "Oleg V. Volkov" <rover@lglobus.ru>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to find absolute name of running binary? Message-ID: <19990921152520.A2400@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990921144020.dread@texas.net> References: <19990921020955.C16138@fly.lglobus.ru> <XFMail.990921144020.dread@texas.net>
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In the last episode (Sep 21), Don Read said: > On 20-Sep-99 Oleg V. Volkov wrote: > > Well subject says it all. How could i find absolute name of my running > > binary from inside it? References to man or C examples welcome. > > You can't. > The best you can hope for is to look at args[0]; and hope the calling > process set it correctly. You could stat() /proc/curproc/file, and search the entire directory tree for a file that matches (no guarantees though; the file could have need deleted). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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