/* Find path of executable. Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. Contributed by Ulrich Drepper , 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. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include /* 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; const char * _dl_get_origin (void) { char linkval[PATH_MAX]; char *result; if (__readlink ("/proc/self/exe", linkval, PATH_MAX) != -1 && linkval[0] != '[') { /* We can use this value. */ char *last_slash = strrchr (linkval, '/'); result = (char *) malloc (last_slash - linkval + 1); if (result == NULL) result = (char *) -1; else if (last_slash == linkval) memcpy (result, "/", 2); else *((char *) __mempcpy (result, linkval, last_slash - linkval)) = '\0'; } else { result = (char *) -1; /* We use the 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 + 1 && cp[-1] == '/') --cp; *cp = '\0'; } } } return result; }