Re: Success, to some extent
tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org> writes:
> > It's gross when the name of the file affects the script's basic
> > behaviour, but very, very useful and pretty when it's used only for
> > error messages.
> That's a different thing. Error messages should always use argv[0]
> which we aren't changing at all.
I take it back. In #! execution the original argv[0] gets dropped, so
the only thing available for errors is the script name. So as gord
points out, this really is part of the problem.
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