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by dataflow
661 days ago
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> I don’t see why not. It’s allowed to behave differently based on the arguments that follow it. That's missing the point, I think. The real question here is, is the name of a program really an argument to the program, from the user's perspective? I certainly don't blame users that disagree. It's more difficult for them to change argv[0], and the fact that this is possible is not necessarily obvious to them, nor to their users. If it helps, think of it like this: imagine the file timestamp was similarly passed as argv[-1]. And that the file inode number was passed as argv[-2]. Would it make sense to change behavior on those too? |
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When I use busybox [invisibly to me], I sure care that it knows whether I called it as "ls" or as "rm" and that it does the operation that I asked it to do.