On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:48, Peter Wortmann <scpmw@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
path portably from C [1]. Using argv[0] just gave me the path of the GHC
wrapper script, for example - as it uses exec without "-a".

Note that "exec -a" is a bash-ism and not portable to POSIX shells (ash on *BSD, dash on Debian/Ubuntu, etc.) or traditional /bin/sh as still shipped with some commercial Unixes.

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