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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:19:27 +0000 (UTC)
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@...bsd.de>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, NRK <nrk@...root.org>,
Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>,
Guillem Jover <guillem@...rons.org>, libc-alpha@...rceware.org,
libbsd@...ts.freedesktop.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
"Skyler Ferrante (RIT Student)" <sjf5462@....edu>,
Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@...hat.com>,
Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Subject: Re: Re: Tweaking the program name for <err.h> functions
Rich Felker dixit:
>the string literal, because the string literal appears in modular
>library code that gets called from multiple utilities, then printing
>an error message (and even worse, exiting, if you do that too), rather
>than returning meaningful error information up to the caller for it to
>handle/display, is just really sloppy, low-quality programming.
Libraries totally should not call exit and thus not err/errx,
and warn/warnx is… also questionable at best.
But modularised code that builds a shared object and a few
binaries using it? Why not.
The thing I don’t get is why changing __progname is desired,
but I guess everyone has use cases for something.
bye,
//mirabilos
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