[fpc-pascal] ParamStr(0) bug??

[Bob Richards]

I have written a program who's behavior depends on the name by which it has been invoked.
This is not uncommon, for instance sendmail invoked as mailq behaves in a completely
different way.

Anyway, it all works as intended as long as I *copy* the executable to a different name.
However, if I use a symlink, the ParamStr(0) function doesn't work as I would expect. It
always returns the name of the executable not the name of the link to it.

Example:


Program test;

Begin
  WriteLn('This program was executed as: ',ParamStr(0));

end.

----

$ ./test
This program was executed as: /home/bob/pascal/test/test

cp test test1
./test1
This program was executed as: /home/bob/pascal/test/test1
$


$ ln -s test test1
$ ./test1
This program was executed as: /home/bob/pascal/test/test
$

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Is there a way to make this work properly? Another method? Is this a bug?

Bob


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