Finding where an executable was run from -- a proposal.
Bruce Ellis
brucee at basser.oz
Wed May 18 11:04:51 AEST 1988
In article <2920 at emory.uucp> arnold at emory.uucp (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC}) says:
>The convention used by ksh-i is to put the full pathname used to exec a file
>in the environment variable "_". This makes a lot of sense to me, and seems
>as good an example of prior art as anything else out there. It is also cleaner
>than most of the suggestions we've seen so far in this discussion, not
>requiring any change to the kernel or the C calling conventions.
Very descriptive name that "_". How about EXECPATH or something more
imaginative?
Disclaimer: what ingot?
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