Strings as function names (again)

[uunet!bria!mike]

In an article, akela.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!wolfram (Wolfram Roesler) writes:
|Using execl or some other syscall to make argv[0] be completely different
|from the bin path is very rarely used (calling login shells is the only
|example that comes to my mind). [...]

Well, most programs that exec only hand the basename of the image to argv[0],
although it would be a wonderful world if they provided the full path.
Of course, it _is_ extremely poor taste to pass anything other than the image
name in argv[0], but it is ocassionally done.  Just can't depend on
anything these days ... :-)
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