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Subject: getting path to executing application
From: "tobias ford..." <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:13:57 -0500

I'm needing to find a way to get the path to where the actual executable file resides using POSIX apis. For example:

foo is located at /usr/bin/foo

when I execute foo, I want it to print /usr/bin/foo no matter what directory I'm in.

I don't want to have to construct it from argv[0] with the cwd.

after looking around, I'm beginning to think that this isn't possible. Any suggestions? please cc me directly.

thanks

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Tobias Ford...
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Senior Software Engineer @ WolfPack Studios
www.wolfpackstudios.com www.shadowbane.com
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