Re: Finding the dump

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 27 2019, "Daniel Colascione" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> On Jan 27 2019, "Daniel Colascione" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> There's some confusion on this thread. argv[0] *is* reliable
>>
>> Nope.  The caller can set argv[0] to any string.  It is in not required
>> to be related to the name of the executable in any way.
>
> Sure, but such callers are holding it wrong. If you set argv[0] to some
> random string unrelated to Emacs, you break startup. That's fine.

No, emacs should not depend on the contents on argv[0].  There is no
need to do that.

Andreas.

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