How does a program get its path name?

Mike Palmer palmer at hsi.UUCP
Tue Mar 8 01:17:32 AEST 1988


In article <4210002 at hpcllf.HP.COM>, jws at hpcllf.HP.COM (John Stafford) writes:
> The name a program was invoked under is in argv[0]; that may (or more
> likely may not) contain the "full" path name.


this can be combined with the info obtained by calling the function
	getwd(pathname)
	char *pathname;

-- 
	Mike Palmer			{uunet,ihnp4,yale}!hsi!palmer
	Health Systems International
	New Haven, CT  06511



More information about the Comp.unix.questions mailing list