From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-05-20T08:39:04+09:00
Subject: Re: The interpreter path


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Felker" <tcfelker@mtco.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: The interpreter path


> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 10:58, Gennady wrote:
> > Hi, fellow rubyists
> >
> > Is there a way to get the path for the Ruby interpreter itself from
> > withing a script? I see rb_argv0 in Ruby 1.6.8 source, however I
> > cannot find the binding to a Ruby constant or some other means to
> > obtain it. Is there any?
> >
> > Gennady.
>
> If there isn't a better Ruby way (if not, there should be), in Linux,
> /proc/yourpid/exe points to that executable.

Very interesting, I did not know about it. Unfortunatelly I need something
portable that should run at least on Linux and Solaris. A Ruby constant
might be quite handy.

Thank you very much,
Gennady.

>
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> Tom Felker
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