id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
5889,Add way to get the path to the running executable,ergosys@…,Beman Dawes,"The filesystem component is missing a function to return the path to the currently running executable. 
This is useful for finding associated program files without resorting to e.g. environmental variables. 

A discussion of the current system-specific ways to do this: 
  http://stackoverflow.com/q/1023306 and http://stackoverflow.com/q/933850

An example of a similar function exists in the Qt library: 
QCoreApplication::applicationFilePath()",Feature Requests,new,To Be Determined,filesystem,Boost 1.47.0,Not Applicable,,,