Program open configuration file with it's relative path on Linux.

 

The problem is, if you open a program in another directory(not the executable directory). A bad program can't read the configuration file in it's relative path. To solve this, We can either wrap it with a bit of bash scripting, or modify the program to get the executable directory as working directory.

Solution 1:

#!/bin/bash

#!/bin/bash

set -e
cd $(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
exec ./myprog $*

this solution is from stackoverflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3988002/how-to-open-a-file-with-its-relative-path-in-linux

 

 

Solution 2:
#include <libgen.h>
#include <unistd.h>
 
void main(int argc,char* argv[]){
    char buf[256];
    chdir(dirname(argv[0])); //set current directory as executable directory, chdir is from unistd.h, when dirname is from libgen.h
    ...
    ...
}