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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:14:30 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Chris Ptacek <ptacek@uranium.dashmail.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Changing the name of the progam seen by ps etc
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* Chris Ptacek <ptacek@uranium.dashmail.net> [000829 15:56] wrote:
> I have a program that changes the name seen by the ps
> command by doing a strcpy(argv[0], "NAME") ;  This has
> worked up until we tried it on FreeBSD 4.1.  Is there
> a better way we should be doing this?  Thanks for any
> help.

setproctitle in libutil.

-Alfred


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