Programmatically retrieving the absolute path of an OS X command-line app

Question

On Linux, an application can easily get its absolute path by querying /proc/self/exe. On FreeBSD, it\'s more involved, since you have to build up a sysctl call

Answer 1

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Process_Manager/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/GetProcessBundleLocation

GetProcessBundleLocation seems to work.