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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Subject: Re: bin/3859: perl and the $0 variable
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The following reply was made to PR bin/3859; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To: andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/3859: perl and the $0 variable
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 20:01:29 +0200

 According to Andrew:
 > In perl you are meant to be able to set the "name" of the current running
 > process as seen by ps by setting the $0 variable. Unfortunatley it the
 > name of the process seems to be set to the value of $0 and an awful lot
 > of spaces (they are spaces and not tabs or something - ps > file --FTP-->
 > mac > text editor).
 
 5.004 seems not to be affected by this:
 
 roberto 12919  0.0  1.8   204 1104  p4  S+    7:59PM   0:00.03 hmm (perl)
 
 PS: your lines are way too long...
 -- 
 Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
 FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #18: Sun Jun  8 15:32:28 CEST 1997