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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fallback on _NSGetExecutablePath to get the executable
 path if using argv[0] fails
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:50:30 -0600
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Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:12, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> The section "2) #ifdefs are ugly" of
>> linux-2.6/Documentation/SubmittingPatches explains the rationale.
>
> I agree, but I don't really see a way around it here since this API is specific to OS X.

Did you actually read that section? :)