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authorDima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-21 18:49:58 +0000
committerDima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-21 18:49:58 +0000
commitc9fa8f40febccf42c90f71da41f9d6e2f6e94c7b (patch)
tree03977ca079820a2f92ecb86b04f68e99d8f237a5
parentf7bec57b784bc56e427dd475150e7f1f7a8bddd3 (diff)
Notes
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/getprogname.34
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/getprogname.3 b/lib/libc/gen/getprogname.3
index cf1e1231d61d..7f0222d5a7f0 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/getprogname.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/getprogname.3
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ If the name has not been set yet, it will return
.Pp
The
.Fn setprogname
-function sets the name of the program.
+function sets the name of the program to be the last component of the
+.Fa progname
+argument.
Since a pointer to the given string is kept as the program name,
it should not be modified for the rest of the program's lifetime.
.Pp