Date: 21 Feb 2001 14:24:57 +0100 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [cgd@netbsd.org: CVS commit: basesrc] Message-ID: <5l1yssrwwm.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:03:42 %2B1100 (EST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102211600070.25199-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> It won't help much with portability. getprogname() and setprogname()
> are currently even more unportable than __progname, and their names
> don't indicated that they should not be used in applications.
But they're supposed to be used in applications. They are helpful
when porting BSD programs that use {err,warn}{,x} (thus relying on the
presence of a __progname). When porting these to non-BSD systems, you
only need to add the trivial implementation of {s,g}etprogname.
Which, I would like to add, was the original rationale for having
these functions.
/assar
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