setproctitle()

Dmitry V. Levin ldv@altlinux.org
Wed Sep 30 22:58:00 GMT 2009


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


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ldv
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