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RFA: clean up usage messages
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
- To: rda at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 19 Oct 2004 14:38:38 -0500
- Subject: RFA: clean up usage messages
If you invoke RDA via a long path, the usage message is pretty illegible.
2004-10-12 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
* server.c (usage): Don't include the entire pathname in the usage
message.
Index: rda/unix/server.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/rda/unix/server.c,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -c -r1.8 server.c
*** rda/unix/server.c 7 Oct 2004 19:14:49 -0000 1.8
--- rda/unix/server.c 12 Oct 2004 23:17:56 -0000
***************
*** 250,255 ****
--- 250,259 ----
static void
usage (char *progname)
{
+ /* Remove any leading slashes from the executable name. */
+ if (strrchr (progname, '/'))
+ progname = strrchr (progname, '/') + 1;
+
fprintf (stderr,
"Usage: %s [-v] tcp-port-num executable-file [arguments ...]\n"
" or: %s -a [-v] tcp-port-num process-id\n"