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Date:      Sun, 24 Mar 2002 14:37:55 +0000
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why isn't __progname declared in a header? 
Message-ID:  <200203241437.g2OEbuXl083121@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020325001528.B44805-100000@gamplex.bde.org> ; from Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>  "Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:24:47 %2B1100."
References:  <20020325001528.B44805-100000@gamplex.bde.org> 

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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.

OK, I've fixed that in src/lib/lib*

> > Next question, what header should it go into? I'm quite happy to do
> > the work.
> 
> libc/include/libc_private.h is almost right.

Hmm. It is implemented in csu/*/crt[01].c, so how about
csu/common/_progname.h?

M
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