Re: src/lib __progname cleanup ; review please

> The name "getprogname" is in the application namespace.  If an
> application that calls err(3) (directly or indirectly) defines a
> non-static function or variable called getprogname, then err(3) will
> use that instead of the "real" getprogname(), possibly with very
> unpleasant consequences.  You should therefore rename getprogname() to
> _getprogname(), which is in the implementation namespace, use only
> _getprogname() internally in libc, and add getprogname() as a weak
> alias for _getprogname() like this:
> 
> __weak_alias(getprogname, _getprogname)

This does not work (getprogname is not in the library, whereas
_getprogname is).

If I grep -r for __weak_alias, I only find what looks like deprecated uses
in libraries. It is not documented or declared anywhere else.

M 
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o       Mark Murray
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