bug#34180: 27.0.50; argv[0] used incorrectly to find the .pdmp

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Wouldn't it be better to have a method of finding the absolute file
>> name of the executable from which the process was started, regardless
>> of what argv[0] says?  The way to do that is system-dependent (on
>> GNU/Linux, I believe you need to readlink ("/proc/self/exe") or
>> somesuch, for example), but AFAIK this can be done on all platforms we
>> support.
>
> It looks like find_executable from progreloc in gnulib provides a
> portable interface for this?  I've added Paul to the CCs.

(Wrong address for Paul; resending to fix that.)