Thread: Dir where application resides

Hello All,

Im trying to get the working directory where my application resides. My actual code uses getcwd.

Code:

#include <unistd.h>
#include <limits.h>

main()
{
char *cwd;
char buf[PATH_MAX+1];
          if((cwd = getcwd(buf, PATH_MAX+1)) == NULL) {
                      perror("pwd");
                          exit(1);
          }
puts(cwd);
}

The result is the current working directory that my user is in the shell session.
If I do this:

cd /tmp
/home/user/cwd

the return is /tmp and not /home/user

Is there a way to get the working directory where the app resides and not the cwd where the user is ?

Thanks,