Re: one week to gdb-7.6 release?

Mark Kettenis
2013-03-25T16:27:54Z

> 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.