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KingOfCoders 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why bother with argv[0]?

I use argv[0] to monitor the binary by itself and restart when it has changed.

actionfromafar 4 months ago [–]

How? Checking and storing a checksum, or just file change metadata?

marcosdumay 4 months ago | [–]

Well, I'm not the GP , but probably with OS file change monitoring API, that changes for each OS but the maintream ones all have some.

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