[Nix-dev] A generic wrapper method (possibly)

Jason O'Conal jason at oconal.id.au
Mon Dec 2 23:03:06 CET 2013


Excerpts from David Guibert's message of 2013-12-02 13:23:49 +0000:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi! Plus one from here. I also notice '.myapp-wrappers' while
> > alt-tab-switching tasks and it is not good for the endusers.
> 
> argv0 [1] allows to run a program with a specified 0th argument.
> 
> [1] http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/argv0.html

+1 from me too. This problem has arisen with several ruby gems: rake and
puppet. I am not sure why they care about their first argument, seems
stupid to me, but they do.

I can't seem to find the source of argv0.
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