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Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.30 gnulib: error() and set_program_name() out of syn


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.30 gnulib: error() and set_program_name() out of sync
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:02:04 -0700
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On 04/27/2018 05:22 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
I don't know at which level this should be fixed

Simplest, I think, would be for tar to stop using the progname module and to assume only getprogname instead. The progname module is problematic for reasons discussed in this thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2016-03/msg00048.html

We haven't really fixed the progname module, and my thought is that we should just deprecate it.




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