Re: Gnat 3.13p: Command_Name RM A.15

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <mailman.979801451.11095.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:

> Randy Brukardt gave me a nice solution (it may not be
> applicable for all cases,  but for me, it worked).
>
> The original question was:
>
> Open the file with the name given by Command_Name, call the
> Name function which
> by A8.2(22) must return the full name, then close the file
again:

This obviously does NOT work if the file is not in the current
directory, which for an executable file is likely. Writing a
program that only works if its executable is in the current
directory is defintely very bad practice, so this "solution"
cannot be recommended.

There is no general way of getting the full path of the
current executable if it is not availabel in arg(0), which
is why this cannot be guaranteed.

This is an old old problem, nothing to do with Ada or GNAT!


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