In article <wolfram.666028267 at ikki> wolfram at ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes: -gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: ->One is that you have to tell it a path to the executable file, and ->that is not in general available for the currently-executing process. -Sure? How about argv[0] ? No, that is extremely unreliable.