1 /* Program name management.
2 Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2005-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2001.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22 #undef ENABLE_RELOCATABLE /* avoid defining set_program_name as a macro */
25 #include <errno.h> /* get program_invocation_name declaration */
31 /* String containing name the program is called with.
32 To be initialized by main(). */
33 const char *program_name
= NULL
;
35 /* Set program_name, based on argv[0].
36 argv0 must be a string allocated with indefinite extent, and must not be
37 modified after this call. */
39 set_program_name (const char *argv0
)
41 /* libtool creates a temporary executable whose name is sometimes prefixed
42 with "lt-" (depends on the platform). It also makes argv[0] absolute.
43 But the name of the temporary executable is a detail that should not be
44 visible to the end user and to the test suite.
45 Remove this "<dirname>/.libs/" or "<dirname>/.libs/lt-" prefix here. */
49 /* Sanity check. POSIX requires the invoking process to pass a non-NULL
53 /* It's a bug in the invoking program. Help diagnosing it. */
54 fputs ("A NULL argv[0] was passed through an exec system call.\n",
59 slash
= strrchr (argv0
, '/');
60 base
= (slash
!= NULL
? slash
+ 1 : argv0
);
61 if (base
- argv0
>= 7 && strncmp (base
- 7, "/.libs/", 7) == 0)
64 if (strncmp (base
, "lt-", 3) == 0)
67 /* On glibc systems, remove the "lt-" prefix from the variable
68 program_invocation_short_name. */
69 #if HAVE_DECL_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_SHORT_NAME
70 program_invocation_short_name
= (char *) argv0
;
75 /* But don't strip off a leading <dirname>/ in general, because when the user
77 /some/hidden/place/bin/cp foo foo
78 he should get the error message
79 /some/hidden/place/bin/cp: `foo' and `foo' are the same file
81 cp: `foo' and `foo' are the same file
86 /* On glibc systems, the error() function comes from libc and uses the
87 variable program_invocation_name, not program_name. So set this variable
89 #if HAVE_DECL_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME
90 program_invocation_name
= (char *) argv0
;