Re: [musl] Re: Tweaking the program name for <err.h> functions

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Rich Felker dixit:

>the string literal, because the string literal appears in modular
>library code that gets called from multiple utilities, then printing
>an error message (and even worse, exiting, if you do that too), rather
>than returning meaningful error information up to the caller for it to
>handle/display, is just really sloppy, low-quality programming.

Libraries totally should not call exit and thus not err/errx,
and warn/warnx is… also questionable at best.

But modularised code that builds a shared object and a few
binaries using it? Why not.

The thing I don’t get is why changing __progname is desired,
but I guess everyone has use cases for something.

bye,
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