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Re: use of program_name


From: Dave Love
Subject: Re: use of program_name
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:55:28 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Under the current approach, it's the caller's responsibility to arrange
> for a program_name variable that works, either by using the progname
> module, or by rolling their own program_name variable.

So gnulib shouldn't be used for libraries (or at least not unless you
avoid modules calling `error' or accept errors spewing junk messages)?

> I suppose it might make sense for error.c to avoid using program_name
> if it's null.

That's probably a good idea, but why can't it be initialized to null
in error.c?  (If the interface to it was just set_program_name, it
could be private.)

[Sorry if I'm being dense.  I came across this a while ago when I
couldn't pursue it, and I may have lost some of the context, but I'm
fairly sure it will confuse others.]




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