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Re: bin/38327: uu{en,de}code - any reason to use non-portable [sg]etprogname?



The following reply was made to PR bin/38327; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/38327: uu{en,de}code - any reason to use non-portable
        [sg]etprogname?
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:57:44 +0200

 On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, cheusov%tut.by@localhost wrote:
 > There are some problems in compiling NetBSD versions of uuencode and
 > uudecode utilities under other OSes (I need it under Linux) because
 > these utilities are not portable enough.  Non-portable setprogname(3)
 > and getprogname(3) functions are used.  I think there is no reason for
 > this.
 
 Use of set/getprogname is recommended by NetBSD's style guide
 (src/share/misc/style), in order to increase portability.  They replace
 unportable uses of the __progname symbol, which is set by NetBSD's
 default program startup code before caling main().  It's unlikely that
 any NetBSD programs that use set/getprogname() will be changed to avoid
 them.
 
 Instead, I suggest that you use or adapt the implementation of
 set/getprogname from src/tools/compat/setprogname.c.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)
 


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