Get process name w/o using argv[0] in C function?

[David Collier-Brown]

jonb at specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes:
>Try this sort of thing:
[function that saves argv[0] in a static]

   Er, that substitutes a globally callable function for a globally
referable variable.  Net gain? more code to do the same thing, value
is read-only.  
   Looks like a bad tradeoff unless you have an imposed religious
requirement to avoid global variables...

--dave
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