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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Elfyn McBratney <beu@gentoo.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:02:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0510110802lbcdebe0m17bce7ca81ea76d2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051010105008.GB30202@gentoo.org>

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:]]*(" ;)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-11 15:02 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 [this message]
2005-10-11 16:11   ` H. Peter Anvin

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