Contents of argv[0]

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1935 at ifi.uio.no> gisle at ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr) writes:
>> This effectively means that in general, argv[0] cannot
>> be treated as a reliable source for the path name! [RTFM]
>
>Is there anything that can be relied upon for this?

No.

>I want to know which directory the executable file resided in.

In current systems you simply don't know.
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