Addition to unix: raw ByteString APIs

[Bas van Dijk]

On 11 November 2011 18:16, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>      - There is a new function
>>
>>         System.Posix.ByteString.getArgs :: [ByteString]
>>
>>        returning the raw untranslated arguments as passed to exec()
>>        when the program was started.
>
> Is this one similar to the [String] getArgs in that it drops unix's
> argv[0]?  I was recently surprised by that in the standard getArgs
> because I wanted a program to restart itself.  I can't figure out how
> to do that without access to argv[0].
>
> I suppose for consistency the ByteString version should have the same
> behaviour, so maybe this is just an opportunity to wonder why it does
> that in the first place.
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System.Environment exports:

getProgName :: IO String

maybe System.Posix.ByteString should export a similar function:

getProgName :: IO ByteString

Bas