An additional sanity check of "topdir" makes sense then. Christian
Alfonso Acosta wrote: > Simon, as usual, is right. It's been quite a while since I last > seriously coded in C. From the exec* man page: > > "The first argument, *by convention*, should point to the file name > associated with the file being executed." > > However, if nothing better is found I guess it's better to rely on an > extended convention rather than hardcoding paths. > > On Nov 19, 2007 11:40 AM, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Christian Maeder wrote: >>> Alfonso Acosta wrote: >>>> On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script ($0) for >>>>> absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones. >>>> I meant _use_ the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths >>>> and combine it with pwd for relative ones. >>> #!/bin/sh >>> reldir=`dirname $0` >>> topdir=`(cd $reldir; pwd)` >> There's no guarantee that $0 holds anything reasonable: you can set $0 to >> whatever you like when calling exec*(). >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users