Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Strings as function names (again)
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.180418.19850@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 1991 18:04:18 GMT

In article <wolfram.666028267@ikki> wolfram@ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes:
>>One is that you have to tell it a path to the executable file, and
>>that is not in general available for the currently-executing process.
>
>Sure? How about argv[0] ?

argv[0] usually, but not always, contains the name under which the program
was invoked.  That has no guaranteed relationship to its pathname.
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