On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yes I would, except that I'm editing a class which is inherited by a multitude of programs, so the /proc way I only have to change one file, whereas the argv[0] way I have to change every source file...
No, that's the point of a global. Inheritance and all doesn't matter. You change main.c (2 lines): char* progname = 0; ... progname = argv[0]; main.h (1 line): extern char* progname; and the source file where you want to use it it (2 lines): #include "main.h" ... printf("progname is %s\n", progname); Your details might vary, for example if there is already a globals.h you could move the declaration from main.h to there, etc. But this really is the sane way of doing this... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list