Functions pointers and stuff.

[Henry Spencer]

In article <301 at oha.UUCP> tony at oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:
>And from the SVID (quasi-portable, if you have SV or Xenix or ?): ...
>    if (nlist(*argv, nameinfo) == -1) {

The problem here is the assumption that argv[0] is a full pathname for
the program.  In general it's not, and finding the binary is not a
trivial exercise.
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