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From: "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix.chdir and backtrace
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:59:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030823165916.GA956@ecooper.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19qYuM-0005kn-00@dsf>

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:58:22AM -0700, david.fox@lindows.com wrote:
> Just a quick note to let everyone know that backtrace stops working
> when your program uses Unix.chdir to change directory and argv[0] is
> a relative pathname, like "./foo".  The output of strace shows it
> trying to open ./foo and failing.  It might be a good idea to apply
> realpath(3) to this path before the program runs.

At least on Linux, the runtime system can just open "/proc/self/exe"
rather than attempting to open caml_exe_name.

-- 
Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-23 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-23 13:58 david.fox
2003-08-23 16:59 ` Eric C. Cooper [this message]
2003-08-25  7:14 ` [Caml-list] DOMINOCAML release charles@laposte

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