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Subject: Re: Why isn't __progname declared in a header?
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On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Mark Murray wrote:

> __progname is (inconsistently) declared all over the place. Why is
> this not in a header?

Because all over the place is unwarrantedly chummy with the implementation.
__progname should only be used in csu/*/crt1.c, getprogname(3),
setprogname(3) and perhaps in other parts of the implementation.

> Next question, what header should it go into? I'm quite happy to do
> the work.

libc/include/libc_private.h is almost right.

Bruce


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