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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: eliz@gnu.org
Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	palves@redhat.com,        jan.kratochvil@redhat.com,
	ralf.corsepius@rtems.org, vapier@gentoo.org,
	       joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com
Subject: Re: one week to gdb-7.6 release?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303251627.r2PGRheU015551@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k3ov1mo0.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 25	Mar 2013 18:14:55 +0200)

> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:14:55 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > What I would do is add a comment inside the posix implementation that
> > the current use of this function is such that returning a copy of
> > the argument is sufficient. That way, someone finding that the function
> > finally needs to be implemented will understand the history.
> 
> I think on Posix platforms, the way to convert argv[0] to an absolute
> file name is to search PATH.

Not really; argv[0] can be set to anything.  It's just convention that
it gets set to the name of the program being executed.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20 16:09 Joel Brobecker
2013-03-20 16:14 ` Pedro Alves
2013-03-20 17:06 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-03-20 17:08 ` Joel Sherrill
2013-03-20 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-23 22:59   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-24  0:01     ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-24  0:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-25 16:58         ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-25 17:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-25 18:10             ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-29  8:02               ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-29 14:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-29 19:53                   ` Joel Brobecker
2013-04-02 18:05                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 13:03                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06  6:16                       ` unbreak Windows hosted cross debugger builds (was: Re: one week to gdb-7.6 release?) Pedro Alves
2013-04-06 15:41                         ` unbreak Windows hosted cross debugger builds " Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-29 15:23                 ` one week to gdb-7.6 release? Ralf Corsepius
2013-03-29 16:42                   ` m32r sim was " Joel Sherrill
2013-03-29 17:18                     ` Mike Frysinger
2013-03-29 19:53                       ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-29 20:24                         ` Joel Sherrill
2013-03-29 21:44                           ` Joel Brobecker
2013-04-04 13:03                         ` Ralf Corsepius
2013-04-10 15:01                           ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-25 19:08             ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2013-03-25 19:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06 21:49                 ` Pedro Alves
2013-04-07  3:58                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-23 23:38   ` Joel Sherrill
2013-03-24  0:12     ` Mike Frysinger
2013-03-20 18:23 ` Ralf Corsepius
2013-04-01 19:56 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-03-29 12:53 Joel Sherrill
2013-03-29 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii

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