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

Fri Oct 18 08:40:00 GMT 2002

Anthony Green wrote:
> On Thu, 2002年10月17日 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!"
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--- 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);
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Ranjit.
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