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Re: /proc/<pid>/exe points to void
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:29:13 -0800
- Subject: Re: /proc/<pid>/exe points to void
- References: <uhdjjkyi2.fsf@gnu.org> <20050310220045.GC20798@cygbert.vinschen.de> <u1xamjhtl.fsf@gnu.org> <20050311160956.GB2821@cygbert.vinschen.de> <ufynid99e.fsf@gnu.org> <20060124174528.GA20968@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:45:28PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 20 13:50, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > >> > On Mar 10 16:00, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > >> >> /proc/<pid>/exe points to "foo", not to "foo.exe", so it cannot be
> > >> >> opened &c.
> > >> > ^^^^
> > >> > ????
> > >>
> > >> how do I find out which file is running if /proc/<pid>/exe cannot be
> > >> opened?
> > >
> > > access(2) or stat(2)
> >
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/access.html
> > the above spec of access appears to indicate that if access() succeeds
> > then open() must succeed too.
> > this is not the case in cygwin: /proc/self/exe cannot be open()ed.
>
> I've just checked in a patch which tacks on the .exe suffix to
> /proc/$PID/exe, as well as a patch to realpath which returns the
> pathname with .exe suffix, even if the original name has no suffix
> given. We will give this a try. Please test the next snapshot.
Mostly for the archives, I note that this makes perl's $^X variable
include the ".exe" suffix. This is probably a good thing, but at the
moment triggers a test failure.
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