Re: setproctitle

> platforms where it is not in libc, the code does different things on
> different platforms - on some it just copies new title over argv array.
> Some systems has pstat() system call - again, sendmail's code uses it.

What OS's has pstat()? Can someone supply a patch for those?

> The overhead is platform-dependent, and for many platform is actually low.
> The biggest overhead is for SCO, as far as I understand the code; may be I
> missed something, but I hope I don't.
>
> > > Bruce, can you give me some hints where in the code you change process
> > > title? I hope there are no more than two or three places to change.
> >
> > Massimo generalized the process status code in
> > include/utils/ps_status.h. See that. It is the central place to change
> > it.
>
> Thanks, I'll look into it.
>
> > > What is our opinion on licensing? At first glance the license looks
> > > pretty compatible:
> >
> > Yes, except that the Eric P. Allman line basically says nothing about
> > his copyright. Is his the same as BSD? Without stating that, it is a
> > very limited copyright.
>
> I have never understand copyright/licensing issues (count I live in
> post-totalitarian country where there was One copyright owner - The
> Government, and One license...)
>
> Oleg.
> ----
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> Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
>
>

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