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From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: mdocml: Finally use __progname, err(3) and warn(3).
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 18:52:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151106175207.GL14370@athene.usta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151106164730.GA1823@britannica.bec.de>

Hi Joerg,

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote on Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 05:47:30PM +0100:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 05:43:57PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:

>> I didn't bother with platforms having __progname but not getprogname(3);
>> those can use argv[0] just like platforms having neither.

> That's fine. The note was primarily about addressing old rants from
> Theo about getprogname() :) 

I seem unable to find those, but i understand that he encouraged
import of getprogname(3) into OpenBSD libc and that he later
said it "has the potential to be more portable":

  http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=137003410606499&w=2
  http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=139882367211410&w=2

Yours,
  Ingo
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2015-11-06 12:28 ` Joerg Sonnenberger
2015-11-06 16:43   ` Ingo Schwarze
2015-11-06 16:47     ` Joerg Sonnenberger
2015-11-06 17:52       ` Ingo Schwarze [this message]

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