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Why Bother with Argv[0]?

Source: Hacker News

Article note: This is a ...narrow... view. Most modern unix-like systems are absolutely lousy with binaries that behave differently when called with different names. All the common preboot environments and small embedded linuxes have a busybox type thing where _one binary_ provides most of the POSIX environment via symlinked names. Etc.
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