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| author | dd <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-21 18:49:58 +0000 |
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| committer | dd <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-21 18:49:58 +0000 |
| commit | 99b2d7167cc3accefec39fb88a2a5c4182cc842a (patch) | |
| tree | 03977ca079820a2f92ecb86b04f68e99d8f237a5 /lib/libc/gen | |
| parent | daf9108f0f6b58f6164d4996630ef264f0eac1c2 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-99b2d7167cc3accefec39fb88a2a5c4182cc842a.zip FreeBSD-src-99b2d7167cc3accefec39fb88a2a5c4182cc842a.tar.gz | |
The setprogname() function sets the name of the program to be the last
component of the progname argument.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/getprogname.3 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/getprogname.3 b/lib/libc/gen/getprogname.3 index cf1e123..7f0222d 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/getprogname.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/getprogname.3 @@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ If the name has not been set yet, it will return .Pp The .Fn setprogname -function sets the name of the program. +function sets the name of the program to be the last component of the +.Fa progname +argument. Since a pointer to the given string is kept as the program name, it should not be modified for the rest of the program's lifetime. .Pp |
