diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fa7ef05..8a0585a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 dnl Minimum Autoconf version required.
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
 
-AC_INIT([fping],[4.0])
+AC_INIT([fping],[4.1])
 
 dnl --disable-ipv4
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([ipv4],
diff --git a/src/fping.c b/src/fping.c
index 8b9ce25..35edca4 100644
--- a/src/fping.c
+++ b/src/fping.c
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 
     /* pre-parse -h/--help, so that we also can output help information
      * without trying to open the socket, which might fail */
+    prog = argv[0];
     if(argc == 2 && ( strcmp(argv[1],"-h")==0 || strcmp(argv[1],"--help")==0 )) {
         usage(0);
     }
@@ -369,7 +370,6 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
             perror("cannot setuid");
     }
 
-    prog = argv[0];
     optparse_init(&optparse_state, argv);
     ident = getpid() & 0xFFFF;
     verbose_flag = 1;