Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:10:26 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: rover@lglobus.ru, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there correct way for program to read from itself? Message-ID: <19991119111026.11577@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <19991119012822.A63914@fly.lglobus.ru>; from Oleg V. Volkov on Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 01:28:22AM %2B0300 References: <19991118065815.B89755@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991118102421.09370@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991118223426.A62913@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991118152324.37840@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991118232846.A63288@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991118154736.22915@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991119002759.B63288@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991118172315.02758@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991119012822.A63914@fly.lglobus.ru>
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On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 1:28:22 +0300, Oleg V. Volkov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 05:23:15PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>>>>>> Is there correct way for porgram to read from it's own file? >>>>>>>> I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean by "it's own file"? >>>>>>>> If you mean the object file, sure. Where's the problem? >>>>>>> I mean this situation: >>>>>>> I have some program /usr/local/bin/someprog. Is there a way for it >>>>>>> to read from itself (from /usr/local/bin/someprog). >>>>>> Sure, that's what I said. What do you expect to find? >>>>> Could you give me short example? >>>> OK, here's copyme.c: > [skip] >>>> And here's what happens when I run it: >>>> $ copyme foo >>>> $ cmp copyme foo >>>> $ ls -l copyme foo >>>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 grog eng 4197 Nov 18 15:44 copyme >>>> -r-------- 1 grog eng 4197 Nov 18 15:44 foo >>>> $ >>>> Not much use, is it? Was that your class assignment? >>> Heh, and now put it into PATH... >>> and >>> $ copyme foo >>> Can't open copyme: No such file or directory >>> Everything is not that easy. >> That wasn't the question. But it can be fixed. How about you doing >> it? > > If i knew how to do it, i didn't came here. You still haven't answered my question: What are you trying to do, and why? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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