Re: pkg/38128 (pkgsrc FEATURES framework doesn't support setprogname/getprogname)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/38128; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
cheusov%tut.by@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/38128 (pkgsrc FEATURES framework doesn't support 
setprogname/getprogname)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 00:40:25 -0500

 On Feb 29,  8:23pm, tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost (tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: pkg/38128 (pkgsrc FEATURES framework doesn't support setprogn
 
 | Synopsis: pkgsrc FEATURES framework doesn't support setprogname/getprogname
 | 
 | Responsible-Changed-From-To: pkg-manager->tnn
 | Responsible-Changed-By: tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost
 | Responsible-Changed-When: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:23:44 +0000
 | Responsible-Changed-Why:
 | I'm doing work in this area.
 | Note however that it's tricky to provide a portable fallback
 | implementation of setprogname()/getprogname() because the only
 | way to do this on some platforms is to overwrite whatever is
 | in argv[0], and getting that pointer can be nontrivial.
 
 Look in /usr/src/usr.sbin/sup/source/setproctitle.c
 
 christos