From 530f6b9f2bf49734a93a246651de1ae5f7418078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@hyperic.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:04:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add getLocation method

---
 .../src/net/hyperic/sigar/SigarLoader.java     | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bindings/java/src/net/hyperic/sigar/SigarLoader.java b/bindings/java/src/net/hyperic/sigar/SigarLoader.java
index 2cce020e..9f9c8d0e 100644
--- a/bindings/java/src/net/hyperic/sigar/SigarLoader.java
+++ b/bindings/java/src/net/hyperic/sigar/SigarLoader.java
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 package net.hyperic.sigar;
 
 import net.hyperic.jni.ArchLoader;
+import net.hyperic.jni.ArchLoaderException;
 import net.hyperic.jni.ArchName;
 import net.hyperic.jni.ArchNotSupportedException;
 
 public class SigarLoader extends ArchLoader {
 
+    private static String location = null;
+
     public SigarLoader(Class loaderClass) {
         super(loaderClass);
     }
@@ -34,4 +37,19 @@ public class SigarLoader extends ArchLoader {
     protected void systemLoad(String name) {
         System.load(name);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the path where sigar.jar is located.
+     */
+    public synchronized static String getLocation() {
+        if (location == null) {
+            SigarLoader loader = new SigarLoader(Sigar.class);
+            try {
+                location = loader.findJarPath("sigar.jar");
+            } catch (ArchLoaderException e) {
+                location = ".";
+            }
+        }
+        return location;
+    }
 }