Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Functions pointers and stuff.
Message-ID: <1989Mar29.204918.3882@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1715@leah.Albany.Edu> <3182@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <301@oha.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 20:49:18 GMT

In article <301@oha.UUCP> tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:
>And from the SVID (quasi-portable, if you have SV or Xenix or ?): ...
>    if (nlist(*argv, nameinfo) == -1) {

The problem here is the assumption that argv[0] is a full pathname for
the program.  In general it's not, and finding the binary is not a
trivial exercise.
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