[vox-tech] Identifying the directory that contains the currently running executable?

[Bill Kendrick]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:31:34AM -0700, Ken Herron wrote:
> Bill noted the entry in the /proc filesystem. For systems without /proc 
> there's no simple way to get this.

Yeah, I was wondering... ;)


> The program can examine argv[0], but 
> that may contain only the program name without the directory path, in 
> which case you would generally read the PATH environment variable and 
> look for the program in each directory listed. It's also possible for 
> argv[0] to contain an irrelevant or misleading string, so you shouldn't 
> depend on it if security is an issue.

Such as an alias, for example?  (I suppose I could try testing...)


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