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From: cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: path names in header files
Message-ID: <1570@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 1 Mar 88 18:07:03 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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Keywords: path names, header files, portability, flexibility, question

i got bit by the "you have been relocated" trick today. Several things did not
work (the stuff I use often) The major problem is describing a path in a header
file, a path that will be used as an argument to open(2). Since the program
will be run from many directories, a relative path is out. Since the path is
an argument to a system call, there is no good opportunity for environment
variable substitution. How do you get around this short of editing the header
files when something has to move?

thanks...
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