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Jon Ross-Perkins 3070e5cfc6 Try using getMainExecutable to address argv[0] limitations (#5643)
When finding an executable, this validates that the returned binary is a
symlink back to the same thing as /proc/self/exe, also using that as a
fallback for different things.

Looking back at #3912, we started using `findProgramByName` in order to
avoid path canonicalization done by `GetMainExecutable`. That created
issues as in #5096, wherein an `argv[0]` that's not explicit enough
(`llvm-symbolizer` instead of the full path, done in [LLVM's
Signals.cpp](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/4f60f45130c6bd96c79e468fe9927a29af760f56/llvm/lib/Support/Signals.cpp#L198))
leads to incorrect results (finding an `llvm-symbolizer` in `$PATH`).

One option to fix this would be to patch LLVM to provide an absolute
path for `llvm-symbolizer`. However, I'll suggest that passing a
filename in `argv[0]` is not terribly uncommon, and could be a migration
limitation if we force it. The failure mode is also opaque; for example:

```
$ /bin/sh -c "exec -a llvm-symbolizer ./bazel-bin/toolchain/carbon"
error: expected carbon-busybox symlink at `/usr/lib/llvm-19/bin/llvm-symbolizer`
```

Combined with the `setenv` of `LLVM_SYMBOLIZER_PATH` in
`busybox_main.cpp`, this is intended to fix #5096.
2025-06-12 16:05:11 +00:00

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// Part of the Carbon Language project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM
// Exceptions. See /LICENSE for license information.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
#ifndef CARBON_COMMON_EXE_PATH_H_
#define CARBON_COMMON_EXE_PATH_H_
#include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
namespace Carbon {
// Computes the executable path for the given `argv[0]` value from `main`.
// `argv0` is required to be null-terminated.
//
// A simplistic approach -- if the provided string isn't already a valid path,
// we look it up in the PATH environment variable. Doesn't resolve any symlinks
// and if it fails, returns the main executable path.
auto FindExecutablePath(const char* argv0) -> std::string;
} // namespace Carbon
#endif // CARBON_COMMON_EXE_PATH_H_