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From:
Alan Burlison
Date:
May 3, 2001 12:11
Subject:
Re: Relocatable perl
Message ID:
3AF1AD62.DF02EDF1@uk.sun.com
Steve Fink wrote:

> Step #2 never fails, and deceives only if someone has messed with
> argv[0]. Which is not uncommon and apparently already confuses perl:

It will fail in the presence of a symlink, e.g.
/usr/local/bin/perl -> /some/other/place/bin/perl.  If realpath() is
available it can be used to chase along symlink trails.

Alan Burlison

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