Is there any reason you want to avoid simply statically linking the
program(s) so that it needs no libc or other shared objects at all?

Or did I misunderstand what you're trying to do?

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 05:05 <u-uy74@aetey.se> wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 08:38:56PM -0400, John Regan wrote:
> > Hi there - I was wondering if it's possible to somehow set argv[0] when
> > calling the dynamic linker to load a program.
>  ...
> > I'd like to retain whatever was actually typed on the command line (in
> this
> > case, set argv[0] to "app"), since many apps look at argv[0] to change
> > behavior, ie - gzip vs gunzip.
> >
> > I tried seeing if there was some switch I could pass to the linker, etc -
> > as far as I can tell, there's no easy way to do this.
>
> Set argv[0] to whatever you need when you exec*() the dynamic loader,
> which is straightforward with a binary wrapper (not with a shell).
>
> A binary wrapper also adds less overhead then going through a shell.
>
> There is imho hardly any incentive to put such functionalty into the
> loader. I say this even though we are dependent here on such tricks,
> to work around programs which insist on guessing things when not asked to.
>
> Regards,
> Rune
>
>