>> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:58:49 -0600
>> From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> X-UIDL: ab65e2a94d9487f65465be74c21fe152
>>
>> >> Insofar as you can pretend to make a good guess at that--perhaps.
>>
>> >On Linux: /proc/self/exe
>>
>> What good does that do you? You can't go ../foo with that. It doesn't
>> tell you the real name, just the dev,ino.
>Here:
>$ ls -l /proc/self/exe
>lrwx------ 1 jtobey jtobey 0 Aug 2 16:06 /proc/self/exe -<SNIP>
>$ readlink /proc/self/exe
>/bin/readlink
>$ perl -le 'print readlink "/proc/self/exe"'
>/home/usr/local/bin/perlmacs
Untrustworthy: trivial race condition there, eh?
>> And it's a nonportable answer
>> that cannot be reproduced everywhere that Perl runs.
>Touche. I believe Windows' GetModuleFileName will work. Any others?
Just the umptimillion other operating systems Perl runs on. You cannot
use this. You can just sometimes guess, non-securely.
--tom
