Proposal: Add getFullProgName

Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 ) kazu at iij.ad.jp
Wed Jun 13 02:51:48 CEST 2012


Hello,

> getProgName is only useful in case you want to print the program name
> to the screen. You cannot actually use it to do anything interesting
> programmatically (like execv:ing the program.) I suggest we add
> getFullProgName which does the sensible thing of returning argv[0].
> Here's an implementation:
> 
> getFullProgName :: IO String
> getFullProgName =
>     alloca $ \ p_argc ->
>     alloca $ \ p_argv -> do
>         getFullProgArgv p_argc p_argv
>         peek p_argv >>= peek >>= peekCString
> 
> foreign import ccall unsafe "getFullProgArgv"
>     getFullProgArgv :: Ptr CInt -> Ptr (Ptr CString) -> IO ()

+1

P.S.

I would also like to have an API to change the process name for
daemon.

--Kazu



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