From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-19T15:32:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12845] Re: Library packaging

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:12786] Re: Library packaging"
    on 01/03/18, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

|I guess there are two cases:
|
|   1. When the program is run using:
|
|             ruby  <path_to_rb>  <options>
|
|      Then you know the path, and all's well
|
|   2. When the program's run using a shebang line, then you may or may 
|      not get the path to the .rb file included. On Linux, this
|      doesn't seem to be a problem. What's the status with other
|      Unices?

There's the third case.

    3. When the program is run using execl(3) etc., where argv[0] and
       the path to the executable might have no relation.

And probably the fourth case to be considered.

    4. the path to the executable is a symbolic link, so base path
       should be resolved by following symbolic link.

							matz.