Re: cygwin: push/pull takes very long time

["Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

On 3/3/06, Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:54:08PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
> >Alex Riesen, Thu, Mar 02, 2006 18:09:23 +0100:
> >>I'll cleanup the profiling code and send it as well soon (I had to
> >>instrument x*alloc).
> >
> >This is not exactly the same.  It counts free as well, even if that is
> >not really interesting - there are places were there is more frees than
> >allocs.  Probably something missed or a result coming from libc.
> >
> >Also it is _not_ the code I used for windows.  I had to have a global
> >variable for argv[0], which needs modification of all main()s, which
> >gets too easily out of sync.
>
> I wasn't following this discussion closely so maybe this is useless
> information, but for Cygwin you can either use the undocumented global
> __argv or you can use /proc/cmdline.  /proc/self/cmdline is going to be
> pretty slow, however.

Oh, thanks. The speed is of no problem here: it's in atexit callback.

> It looks like pure Windows console apps define _argv in stdlib.h also
> but I've never used this and don't know if it is what it looks like.

It works as usual argv. I used "char **__argv", got the message from linker:
Info: resolving ___argv by linking to __imp____argv (auto-import)
which I almost expected.