[PATCH] ld.so: add an --argv0 option
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Sat Apr 23 12:21:00 GMT 2016
* Mike Frysinger:
> Sometimes when you run a program you want the argv[0] string passed to
> the app to be different than the actual path you used to load it. We
> can't do this today with invoking via ld.so which can be limiting --
> some programs like to inspect their argv[0] and make decisions as to
> how it should (re)exec itself or helper tools. For example, clang and
> gcc both do argv[0] inspection to support relocatable toolchains.
Interesting idea. I think it's sufficiently to include this, but it
needs a ChangeLog entry and a test case.
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