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Getting program name

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Zebra2k

Zebra2k

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Aug 12, 2002
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Hi,
How do I get the name of the current running program without using the command line argument argv[0]?

thanks,
zb
 
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Here is a long winded way

1) get your process id using getpid
2) look for it in popen ("ps")
 
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