Re: Proposal: getexecpath(3)

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Oct 26, 2026, at 7:12 PM, Mouse <mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Good point.  Since (at least as far as I recall) we don't know why
> anyone (putatively) wants the original path, we don't know whether this
> matters.  But for most likely purposes I would expect it would.

It’s useful for having “relocatable” (in the file system) applications, so that a program could find its resources without having to bake in path prefixes as compile time.

-- thorpej