From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, shenhan@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld.so: add an --argv0 option
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvokjz1u.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461389300-29574-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Sat, 23 Apr 2016 01:28:20 -0400")
* Mike Frysinger:
> Sometimes when you run a program you want the argv[0] string passed to
> the app to be different than the actual path you used to load it. We
> can't do this today with invoking via ld.so which can be limiting --
> some programs like to inspect their argv[0] and make decisions as to
> how it should (re)exec itself or helper tools. For example, clang and
> gcc both do argv[0] inspection to support relocatable toolchains.
Interesting idea. I think it's sufficiently to include this, but it
needs a ChangeLog entry and a test case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-23 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-23 5:28 Mike Frysinger
2016-04-23 12:21 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2016-04-23 20:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2016-04-24 12:21 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-22 8:33 Vincent Mihalkovic
2020-07-22 9:00 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-26 20:00 ` Vincent Mihalkovic
2020-07-27 5:54 ` Florian Weimer
2020-08-12 11:06 Vincent Mihalkovic
2020-08-25 15:10 ` Adhemerval Zanella
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