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... ~=> ls -l /proc/$$ total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 cmdline -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 ctty lrwxrwxrwx 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 cwd -> /home/ajrh lrwxrwxrwx 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 exe -> /usr/bin/zsh dr-xr-xr-x 2 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:33 fd -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 gid -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 maps -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 pgid -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 ppid lrwxrwxrwx 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 root -> / -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 sid -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 stat -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 statm -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 status -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 uid -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 winexename -r--r--r-- 1 ajrh None 0 Mar 28 23:34 winpid A -- 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/
