Isn't this about 24 years overdue? Can we do it now. (Only kidding, but seriously...) Chris -----Original Message----- From: libraries-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Johan Tibell Sent: 13 June 2012 00:57 To: Haskell Libraries Subject: Proposal: Add getFullProgName Hi, getProgName is only useful in case you want to print the program name to the screen. You cannot actually use it to do anything interesting programmatically (like execv:ing the program.) I suggest we add getFullProgName which does the sensible thing of returning argv[0]. Here's an implementation: getFullProgName :: IO String getFullProgName = alloca $ \ p_argc -> alloca $ \ p_argv -> do getFullProgArgv p_argc p_argv peek p_argv >>= peek >>= peekCString foreign import ccall unsafe "getFullProgArgv" getFullProgArgv :: Ptr CInt -> Ptr (Ptr CString) -> IO () Discussion deadline: 2 weeks -- Johan _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries