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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Elfyn McBratney <beu@gentoo.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:11:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <434BE41F.4060909@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0510110802lbcdebe0m17bce7ca81ea76d2@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:
> On 10/10/05, Elfyn McBratney <beu@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>>        int main (int argc, char **argv)
>>        {
>>                set_prog_name(argv[0]);
> 
> 
> I'd also use readlink on /proc/self/exe by default (if set_prog_name
> _not_ called).
> It simplifies the code at least on linux, and makes possible very slow
> transition for other platforms. So you don't have to update each and
> every .c file containing "main[[:space:]]*(" ;)

It's really better just to put the stuff at the beginning of each main. 
  If that's too annoying, librarize main and rename your mains "git_main".

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-11 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-10 10:50 [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages Elfyn McBratney
2005-10-10 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-11 19:48   ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-11 20:50     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-12  1:20       ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-12  3:18         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-12  4:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-12  4:40             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-12  5:02               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-12  6:04           ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-10 20:14 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-11 15:02 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-11 16:11   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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