Reading the symbol table of the currently running executable

Mitch Bunnell mitch at lynx.uucp
Wed Sep 6 03:17:36 AEST 1989


In article <9104 at june.cs.washington.edu> bcn at cs.washington.edu (Clifford Neuman) writes:
>
>  1) Directly reading the symbol table from within the running program
>
>  2) Obtaining the full path name of the presently running executable.
>
>  3) Obtaining a file descriptor for the currently running executable


1 - Not possible. The symbol table is NOT loaded with the program.

2 - Not possible.

3 - Not possible.

SORRY

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Mitch Bunnell - Lynx Real-time systems
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