Brendan Doyle <Brendan.Doyle at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Thanks for the responses, but I believe that the argv/argc solution will
> not help me, I'm porting a library there is no main() or argv/argc.
>
> So I guess that basename(getexecname()) will work, but will it work on
> Linux?
No, but you could try to ask whether Linux glibc could add support for
getexecname().
> Actually I'm not even sure that will work, program_invocation_short_name is
> global and set before main is called. So where in the library would I call
> basename(getexecname()) to extract the string and update a global so that
> all functions in the library can use it?
getexecname() wil work.
You could add this:
#ifndef HAVE_GETEXECNAME
const char *
getexecname()
{
#ifdef HAVE_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME
return (program_invocation_name);
#else
return ("unknown");
#endif
}
Writing portable code requires you to know about portability issues.....
J?rg
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