Re: finding datadir from executable

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Daniel,

> You give it argv[0], BINDIR, and OTHERDIR; it computes the relative
> path between bindir and otherdir, finds your application in $PATH or
> similar, and works out the likely location of otherdir.

Does argv[0] always contain a path on all Unixes?  IIRC, some old ones
put just `ls' there despite execve(2) being given "/bin/ls".

Cheers,


Ralph.