Re: Question about setting argv[0] when manually using dynamic linker

[mzpqnxow <musl@mzpqnxow.com>]

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BTW, the shell built-in "exec" has -a which can be used to set argv[0]

Again though, I'm not entire sure I understand your use, so ignore this if
it's irrelevant :>

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 07:00 mzpqnxow <musl@mzpqnxow.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>

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