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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Get process name w/o using argv[0] in C function?
Message-ID: <13491@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Aug 90 11:45:53 GMT
References: <9220003@hpldsla.sid.hp.com> <1990Aug4.051827.16438@nbc1.ge.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Aug4.051827.16438@nbc1.ge.com> scott@nbc1.GE.COM (Scott Barman) writes:
>I cannot think of one rational or even irrational reason *not* to use
>global variables.

Really?  I thought this was commonly taught in structured software development
courses.