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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:55:31PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > BSDs have: > > void setproctitle(const char *fmt, ...); > > to change the process title (in ps output). Could this also be added to > glibc? Or would it be better done by adding a new syscall to Linux > kernel? > > (I know there's a way to already mess around with argv and environ to > implement it, but it seems pretty dangerous so I haven't dared to use it > on my actual programs.) The method you call pretty dangerous is used here and there for a long time already. I even wrote a library about 5 years ago that implements setproctitle() for GNU/Linux, see http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=setproctitle.git -- ldv
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