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GETPROGNAME(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual GETPROGNAME(3) NAME getprogname, setprogname -- get or set the program name LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <stdlib.h> const char * getprogname(void); void setprogname(const char *progname); DESCRIPTION The getprogname() and setprogname() functions manipulate the name of the current program. They are used by error-reporting routines to produce consistent output. The getprogname() function returns the name of the program. If the name has not been set yet, it will return NULL. The setprogname() function sets the name of the program to be the last component of the progname argument. Since a pointer to the given string is kept as the program name, it should not be modified for the rest of the program's lifetime. In FreeBSD, the name of the program is set by the start-up code that is run before main(); thus, running setprogname() is not necessary. Pro- grams that desire maximum portability should still call it; on another operating system, these functions may be implemented in a portability li- brary. Calling setprogname() allows the aforementioned library to learn the program name without modifications to the start-up code. EXAMPLES The following example presents a simple program, which shows the differ- ence between getprogname() and argv[0]. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) { printf("getprogname(): %s\n", getprogname()); printf("argv[0]: %s\n", argv[0]); return (0); } When compiled and executed (e.g., with `./a.out') the output of the pro- gram is going to look like this: getprogname(): a.out argv[0]: ./a.out SEE ALSO err(3), setproctitle(3) HISTORY These functions first appeared in NetBSD 1.6, and made their way into FreeBSD 4.4. FreeBSD 13.0 April 18, 2021 FreeBSD 13.0
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