From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>,
Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set up argv0_path correctly, even when argv[0] is just the basename
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:43:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3allvnhm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080803202513.GC3482@efreet.light.src> (Jan Hudec's message of "Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:25:13 +0200")
Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:
> On UNIX, not only that argv[0] can contain the program without path -- it can
> contain anything the user thinks of.... Maybe since
> it's only needed for resolving a relative exec dir, relative exec dir could
> be supported only on systems that have such method (which is most of them).
The "relocatable install" itself is not usually a common concept in the
UNIX world, and I do not think this matters anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-03 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-26 9:41 [PATCH] Modify mingw_main() workaround to avoid link errors Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-26 13:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-26 16:07 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-26 14:14 ` [PATCH] Set up argv0_path correctly, even when argv[0] is just the basename Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-26 14:54 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-26 15:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-26 15:19 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-26 15:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-26 15:53 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-26 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-26 17:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-03 20:25 ` Jan Hudec
2008-08-03 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-26 20:37 ` [PATCH] Modify mingw_main() workaround to avoid link errors Johannes Sixt
2008-07-26 21:36 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-27 19:24 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-29 4:46 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-29 8:33 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-29 19:46 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-08-03 19:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-03 21:21 ` Junio C Hamano
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