Re: Silly Question: Equivalent of C argv[0] in GCJ?

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

Anthony Green wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 07:11, Ranjit Mathew wrote:
>
> >     How does one get the name by which a program
> > was invoked (argv[0] in C) in a GCJ created
> > executable?
>
> There is no way right now, but that seems like a good idea.
>
>
> > I looked at the GCJ documentation and looked
> > at all the properties returned by System.getProperties( )
> > but nothing like this was there.
>
> I think a patch to set a system property like "gnu.gcj.progname" would
> be welcome.
"THY WISH IS MY COMMAND!"

------------------------------ 8< -----------------------------
--- natRuntime.cc.orig  Fri Oct 18 21:07:44 2002
+++ natRuntime.cc       Fri Oct 18 21:08:57 2002
@@ -534,4 +534,7 @@
     }

+  // The name used to invoke this process (argv[0] in C).
+  SET ( "gnu.gcj.progname", _Jv_ThisExecutable( ));
+
   // Allow platform specific settings and overrides.
   _Jv_platform_initProperties (newprops);
------------------------------ 8< -----------------------------

:-)

Ranjit.

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