On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:31:34AM -0700, Ken Herron wrote: > Bill noted the entry in the /proc filesystem. For systems without /proc > there's no simple way to get this.
Yeah, I was wondering... ;) > The program can examine argv[0], but > that may contain only the program name without the directory path, in > which case you would generally read the PATH environment variable and > look for the program in each directory listed. It's also possible for > argv[0] to contain an irrelevant or misleading string, so you shouldn't > depend on it if security is an issue. Such as an alias, for example? (I suppose I could try testing...) -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Maybe it's just a parlor trick, like Fry" http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ "Like Fry! Like Fry!" New Breed Software _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech