i3 --moreversion: use readlink /proc/$pid/exe instead of realpath(argv[0])

The latter is actually wrong. For example, when running i3
--moreversion, it will print $(pwd)/i3 instead of $(which i3). In my
previous tests, this coincidentally was the same.
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Michael Stapelberg 2012-08-13 13:38:04 +02:00
parent ef90ccd1a8
commit d7b11bde28
1 changed files with 13 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -123,18 +123,25 @@ void display_running_version(void) {
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "Could not parse my own reply. That's weird. reply is %.*s", (int)reply_length, reply); errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "Could not parse my own reply. That's weird. reply is %.*s", (int)reply_length, reply);
printf("\rRunning i3 version: %s (pid %s)\n", human_readable_version, pid_from_atom); printf("\rRunning i3 version: %s (pid %s)\n", human_readable_version, pid_from_atom);
printf("\n");
char resolved_path[PATH_MAX];
if (realpath(start_argv[0], resolved_path) == NULL)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "realpath(%s)", start_argv[0]);
printf("The i3 binary you just called: %s\n", resolved_path);
#ifdef __linux__ #ifdef __linux__
char exepath[PATH_MAX], char exepath[PATH_MAX],
destpath[PATH_MAX]; destpath[PATH_MAX];
ssize_t linksize;
snprintf(exepath, sizeof(exepath), "/proc/%d/exe", getpid());
if ((linksize = readlink(exepath, destpath, sizeof(destpath))) == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "readlink(%s)", exepath);
/* readlink() does not NULL-terminate strings, so we have to. */
destpath[linksize] = '\0';
printf("\n");
printf("The i3 binary you just called: %s\n", destpath);
snprintf(exepath, sizeof(exepath), "/proc/%s/exe", pid_from_atom); snprintf(exepath, sizeof(exepath), "/proc/%s/exe", pid_from_atom);
ssize_t linksize;
if ((linksize = readlink(exepath, destpath, sizeof(destpath))) == -1) if ((linksize = readlink(exepath, destpath, sizeof(destpath))) == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "readlink(%s)", exepath); err(EXIT_FAILURE, "readlink(%s)", exepath);