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+/* Find path of executable.
+   Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+   Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1998.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
+   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+   License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Library General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not,
+   write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
+
+/* On Linux >= 2.1 systems which have the dcache implementation we can get
+   the path of the application from the /proc/self/exe symlink.  Try this
+   first and fall back on the generic method if necessary.  */
+extern const char *_dl_origin_path;
+
+static inline const char *
+get_origin (void)
+{
+  char linkval[PATH_MAX];
+  char *result;
+
+  if (readlink ("/proc/self/exe", linkval, PATH_MAX) != -1
+      && result[0] != '[')
+    {
+      /* We can use this value.  */
+      char *last_slash = strrchr (linkval, '/');
+      result = (char *) malloc (linkval - last_slash + 1);
+      if (result == NULL)
+	result = (char *) -1;
+      else
+	*((char *) __mempcpy (result, linkval, linkval - last_slash)) = '\0';
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      size_t len = 0;
+
+      result = (char *) -1;
+      /* We use te environment variable LD_ORIGIN_PATH.  If it is set make
+	 a copy and strip out trailing slashes.  */
+      if (_dl_origin_path != NULL)
+	{
+	  size_t len = strlen (_dl_origin_path);
+	  result = malloc (len + 1);
+	  if (result == NULL)
+	    result = (char *) -1;
+	  else
+	    {
+	      char *cp = __mempcpy (result, _dl_origin_path, len);
+	      while (cp > result && cp[-1] == '/')
+		--cp;
+	      *cp = '\0';
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+
+  return result;
+}