Re: get_progname and .exe suffix

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
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>>I posted on -hackers the other day about get_progname returning a name 
>>with the .exe suffix.
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>What would break if we caused get_progname itself to strip the suffix?
>That would be a nice localized fix if it worked ...
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Yes. get_progname() actually just returns a pointer to one past the last 
directory separator it finds in its argument string. Having it strip the 
.exe directly would in effect involve mangling argv[0]. That's what 
makes me slightly nervous about it. We could have it strdup() the result 
and then mangle that - note that it is called by postmaster before we 
set up any memory context stuff.


cheers

andrew

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