Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:26:44 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no, sprice@hiwaay.net Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/w w.c Message-ID: <199812251026.VAA28449@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Userland applications shouldn't use __progname. Besides in this >case we really don't care if the path is present or not. All we >are looking for is something that looks like 'uptime'. Of course >this is still broken if you do something bizarre like /bin-uptime/w >and expect w(1) semantics. Then again the original version would >treat 'umm-w' as uptime(1) and 'my-uptime' as 'w'. Not a perfect >solution either way but I think the way it stands now fits the >original intent and doesn't use variables that aren't intended >for use in userland. OpenBSD requires __progname to be "w", "uptime", "-w" or "-uptime" but doesn't tell you about the names starting with "-" in the error message. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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