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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