1 /* Find path of executable.
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4 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1998.
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25 #include <sys/param.h>
31 /* On Linux >= 2.1 systems which have the dcache implementation we can get
32 the path of the application from the /proc/self/exe symlink. Try this
33 first and fall back on the generic method if necessary. */
38 char linkval
[PATH_MAX
];
40 char *result
= (char *) -1l;
43 str
= GLRO(dl_execfn
);
44 if (str
== NULL
|| str
[0] != '/')
46 INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err
);
48 len
= INTERNAL_SYSCALL (readlink
, err
, 3, "/proc/self/exe", linkval
,
50 if (! INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (len
, err
)
51 && len
> 0 && linkval
[0] != '[')
61 /* We use the environment variable LD_ORIGIN_PATH. If it is set make
62 a copy and strip out trailing slashes. */
63 if (GLRO(dl_origin_path
) != NULL
)
65 size_t len
= strlen (GLRO(dl_origin_path
));
66 result
= (char *) malloc (len
+ 1);
71 char *cp
= __mempcpy (result
, GLRO(dl_origin_path
), len
);
72 while (cp
> result
+ 1 && cp
[-1] == '/')
80 /* We can use this value. */
81 assert (str
[0] == '/');
82 while (len
> 1 && str
[len
- 1] != '/')
84 result
= (char *) malloc (len
+ 1);
88 memcpy (result
, "/", 2);
90 *((char *) __mempcpy (result
, str
, len
- 1)) = '\0';