[Vm-dev] different behaviour for Carbon VM depending on how it's started

[Adrian Lienhard]

On May 1, 2008, at 17:07 , Michael Haupt wrote:

>
> Hi John,
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:30 PM, John M McIntosh
> <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
>> If the launch came from the Finder, the Carbon process serial  
>> number is
>> placed in argv (to see what I mean do a ps -ax and notice the -psn_*
>> arguments).
>> Let me dig some more after I drop the teenager off at school.
>
> thanks. :-)
>
> One thing that occurred to a colleague and myself is that it might
> have something to do with difficulties in resolving the path to the
> python executable. Would the PATH environment variable be different,
> depending on whether the VM is started from the command line, or from
> the Finder?

That would have been my first guess.
Check "OSProcess thisOSProcess environment"

Adrian