Box64 Linux x86_64 Emulation v0.4.5-1: [WRAPPER] Fix my_readlink (#4212)

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Executive Summary

readlink does not append a null at the end, so strncpy can't be used. The buf may not end with a null, so strstr and strcmp also can't be used. Concatenating cwd and path is incorrect, which get a string like /home/xx/proc/778/exe . The correct approach is to concatenate cwd with the first string in cmdline . Support box64 test_app , which is actually a relative path but does not start with a dot in cmdline .

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