I am using this snippet in my code to get the path of the current executable.
char buffer[PATH_MAX];
ssize_t count = readlink( "/proc/self/exe", buffer, PATH_MAX );
printf("buf: %s\n", buffer);
This works fine for the most part, and I have a duplicate located in some locations in my code, so there is no problem with it for the most time.
However, today I was debugging some command of mine that failed and I stumbled across something peculiar. This was the debug output I received.
buf: /home/[CENSORED]/IOS/IOS_Project/target/ios_historyrget/history.txt
It seems the unreliability of it finally caught up to me. What I do not understand is, why there is a rget/history.txt at the end of it? I suspect it has something to do with me writing to the file before in the same executable and the close call not having finished, but that is just a wild guess. How do I get rid of it in the best case?