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> Carl Fredrik Hammar writes:
[...]
> The reason argv[0] is expanded is because it is passed as an argument
> to the i
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #28934 (project hurd):
> > The reason argv[0] is expanded is because it is passed as an argument
> > to the interpreter, otherwise the interpreter can't find it.
>
> Unless it is a relative path, of course.
I did mean any path, relative or not. What's important is tha
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #28934 (project hurd):
> The reason argv[0] is expanded is because it is passed as an argument
> to the interpreter, otherwise the interpreter can't find it.
Unless it is a relative path, of course.
> Also, ``./foo bar'' gets me `bar' in Linux not `./bar'. Are you sur
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #28934 (project hurd):
I researched further how argv[0] is supposed to be handled and have a
much firmer grasp on the situation now.
argv[0] is only expanded to path to the executed file when the executed
file is a #!-script. This means that touching argv[0] in execve(
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #28934 (project hurd):
Hi Carl,
Actually I don't think the exec server needs to know what exec*() variant has
been called, since the call itself will have called execve() with the full
path by looking at PATH if needed (see glibc's posix/execvpe.c, the beginning
of the
Hi,
Last year we had three ideas for Hurd-related Google Summer of Code
projects at X.org: libpciaccess, VT switching, and initial DRM porting.
The first one is obsolete now, but the other ones are still fine.
(The updated list is on
http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/community/gsoc/xorg_ideas/ )
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:25:39AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Samuel Thibault writes:
> > Ludovic Courtès, le Tue 23 Feb 2010 16:40:12 +, a écrit :
> >> For now, how about fixing it locally in hurd/glibc.git at Savannah?
> >
> > For now, I've commited a fix to Debian's glibc.
>
> T
Update of bug #28859 (project hurd):
Assigned to:None => tschwinge
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Follow-up Comment #4:
Yes, I'll commit the fix there, as soon (``soon'' -- pun unavoidable...) as I
get back to working