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Re: Missing program_name on Darwin


From: Daniel Peebles
Subject: Re: Missing program_name on Darwin
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 08:56:20 -0400

What would it take to get a patch merged into gnulib for this issue? Margaret's patch didn't gain much traction because it didn't solve the problem for non-darwin platforms, but at the same time we also acknowledge that there's no platform-agnostic way to do this. To me, it would be better to accept a patch that improves the situation for one platform, with the understanding that we'll have to keep adding special cases as more people realize that the program_name approach doesn't work on their platform.

Or if program_name isn't used in a critical manner, we could just have an #define that makes it "<unknown program name>" on non-glibc, non-darwin platforms?

Thanks,
Dan

(apologies for the possibly weirdly formatted reply but I only just subscribed to this list and don't have an email in my client to reply to)

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:36:40AM +0000, Tobias Pflug wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> quite some time ago there already was a discussion about the missing 
> program_name symbol on Darwin and Richard proposed a patch [1] that would 
> #define program_name as (((char **)*_NSGetArgv())[0]) but sadly the 
> discussion died down without any result.
> 
> In NixOS we are currently facing this problem again and are looking for a 
> solution [2]. It would be great if this could be fixed inside gnulib itself. 
> I hope I can revive the discussion around this to move this topic forward 
> this time.
> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> Tobias
> 
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2015-02/msg00079.html

I think Margaret is carrying that patch downstream for libguestfs now.
It would be nice to get this working in gnulib.

Rich.

> [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/15849

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