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changeset 11011:0b99e0a3b918
Add more comments.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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date | Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:51:53 +0100 |
parents | 420e50c93999 |
children | 7d60d765a19c |
files | ChangeLog lib/progname.c |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-01-14 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * lib/progname.c (set_program_name): Add more comments. + Reported by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>. + 2009-01-14 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> * lib/sys_stat.in.h: Include sys/types.h for nlink_t on systems
--- a/lib/progname.c +++ b/lib/progname.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* Program name management. - Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2005-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2005-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ { /* libtool creates a temporary executable whose name is sometimes prefixed with "lt-" (depends on the platform). It also makes argv[0] absolute. + But the name of the temporary executable is a detail that should not be + visible to the end user and to the test suite. Remove this "<dirname>/.libs/" or "<dirname>/.libs/lt-" prefix here. */ const char *slash; const char *base; @@ -47,5 +49,15 @@ if (strncmp (base, "lt-", 3) == 0) argv0 = base + 3; } + + /* But don't strip off a leading <dirname>/ in general, because when the user + runs + /some/hidden/place/bin/cp foo foo + he should get the error message + /some/hidden/place/bin/cp: `foo' and `foo' are the same file + not + cp: `foo' and `foo' are the same file + */ + program_name = argv0; }