getprogname / setprogname
H. J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Fri Mar 17 15:51:00 GMT 2006
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:35:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> How would you feel about adding getprogname / setprogname ?
>
> They're very simple: setprogname writes to a char pointer and getprogname
> reads from it. Optionaly, startup routines might call "setprogname (argv[0])".
>
> The idea is that programs can find their own name outside of main(), see:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getprogname
>
Since we are on this topic, sometimes, I want to know the real pathname
of the program. It isn't easy to find it out.
H.J.
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