[SDL] SDL Linux Help

[Paul Duffy]

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 18:16 +0200, millenomi wrote:
> On 4/26/07, Paul Duffy <odubtaig at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Whoo, I can't believe no-one's answered this correctly yet.
> 
> Paul: this creates a .desktop file, which was mentioned in the thread.
> This also creates a dependency on the particular .desktop file (which
> might be fine, but then it might not be, depending on the situation).
> 

True, but it didn't explain how or why. There is another method whereby
you can get the PID, dereference the symlink for /proc/PID/exe, slice
off everything after the last / and change the CWD to this, but it's
generally frowned upon for security reasons.


		
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