Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!basser!brucee
From: brucee@basser.oz (Bruce Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Finding where an executable was run from -- a proposal.
Message-ID: <1252@basser.oz>
Date: 18 May 88 01:04:51 GMT
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Reply-To: brucee@basser.oz (Bruce Ellis)
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <2920@emory.uucp> arnold@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?