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

[Shea Levy]

FWIW, bash's 'exec' takes a flag (-a) to specify argv[0] as well.

On 12/02/2013 05:03 PM, Jason O'Conal wrote:
> 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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