GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

[Alfonso Acosta]

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 <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>