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-rw-r--r--lib/System/Unix/Path.inc11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/System/Unix/Path.inc b/lib/System/Unix/Path.inc
index a8dcedb..3a651f9 100644
--- a/lib/System/Unix/Path.inc
+++ b/lib/System/Unix/Path.inc
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Path::GetRootDirectory() {
}
Path
-Path::GetTemporaryDirectory(std::string* ErrMsg ) {
+Path::GetTemporaryDirectory(std::string *ErrMsg) {
#if defined(HAVE_MKDTEMP)
// The best way is with mkdtemp but that's not available on many systems,
// Linux and FreeBSD have it. Others probably won't.
@@ -280,8 +280,13 @@ Path Path::GetMainExecutable(const char *argv0, void *MainAddr) {
// Use dladdr to get executable path if available.
Dl_info DLInfo;
int err = dladdr(MainAddr, &DLInfo);
- if (err != 0)
- return Path(std::string(DLInfo.dli_fname));
+ if (err == 0)
+ return Path();
+
+ // If the filename is a symlink, we need to resolve and return the location of
+ // the actual executable.
+ char link_path[MAXPATHLEN];
+ return Path(std::string(realpath(DLInfo.dli_fname, link_path)));
#endif
return Path();
}