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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, paul@mad-scientist.net, dnj@google.com
Subject: Re: Git 2.18: RUNTIME_PREFIX... is it working?
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:26:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180719222613.GA7066@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1807181418120.71@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:18:44PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > I will say that at cPanel, we have a configuration where end users can
> > end up inside a mount namespace without /proc (depending on the
> > preferences of the administrator).  However, it's easy enough for us to
> > simply build without RUNTIME_PREFIX if necessary.
> > 
> > If we turn it on by default, it would be nice if we documented (maybe in
> > the Makefile) that it requires /proc on Linux for the benefit of other
> > people who might be in a similar situation.
> 
> Is there *really* no other way on Linux to figure out the absolute path of
> the current executable than to open a pseudo file in the `/proc` file
> system?

Nope, not that I'm aware of.  You have to read the destination of
the /proc/PID/exe symlink.
-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-19 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-04  5:12 Git 2.18: RUNTIME_PREFIX... is it working? Paul Smith
2018-07-04 11:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-05 15:36   ` Paul Smith
2018-07-06  9:00     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-06 13:18       ` Daniel Jacques
2018-07-08 18:52         ` Paul Smith
2018-07-08 21:52           ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-09 19:58             ` Jeff King
2018-07-09 20:26               ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-10  2:21                 ` Jeff King
2018-07-10 11:40                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-10 14:03                     ` Daniel Jacques
2018-07-10 16:09                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-09 21:05               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-10  3:56               ` Jeff King
2018-07-10  7:13                 ` Perry Hutchison
2018-07-10 14:03                   ` Jeff King
2018-07-10 22:20                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-07-10 22:21                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-07-17  9:45                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-14 20:51                     ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-18 12:18                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-19 22:26                         ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2018-07-20 14:29                           ` Jeff Hostetler

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