Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: new module: progname

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> >           _lib_init (const char *proram_invocation_fullname,
> >                      const char *shared_library_fullname)
> >
> >           _lib_close ()

> However, won't there be some problem in standardizing which
> arguments to pass?  I can see that other people might want more
> arguments, e.g., the handle that dlopen will return.

Yes that's a good candidate for a third argument.

> Similarly, other
> people might want some of those arguments passed to _lib_close.

The _lib_init function can store the values in static variables of the
library; therefore there's no need to pass the same arguments to
_lib_close() again.

> And they prefer proposals that are already
> implemented, so this wouldn't be a trivial task.

Yes, that'd be the hard part...

Bruno