GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

[Simon Marlow]

Christian Maeder wrote:
> Alfonso Acosta wrote:
>> On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta <alfonso.acosta at gmail.com> 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