On Mar 28 23:36, Anthony Heading wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:35:28PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:39:23AM -0800, Earl Chew wrote: > > >I think the name of the current executable is stored in myself->progname > > >within cygwin1.dll. > > > > > >The more easily accessible __progname returns the basename of the > > >executable. > > > > > >Is there a way for an application to obtain myself->program, other > > >than resorting to raw win32 call to GetModuleFileName()? > > > > argv[0] or __argv[0] or /proc/self/exename > > Has this link been renamed? It appears to have changed to > /proc/self/exe now, which has broken a lot of my programs...
The old exename was a file containing the path, the new exe is a symlink pointing to the binary. This is how it's done on Linux. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
