The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> No reason for the exec(). I believe the only advantage is that it gives
>> us a separate process name in the 'ps' listing. I have looked into
>> simulating this.
> Under FreeBSD, there is:
> setproctitle(3) - set the process title for ps 1
> This isn't available under Solaris though, last I checked...
Setting the process title from C is messy, but there is a readily
available reference. The Berkeley sendmail distribution includes code
to emulate setproctitle on practically every platform. See conf.h and
conf.c in any recent sendmail release. Warning: it's grotty enough to
make a strong man weep. Don't read near mealtime ;-)
regards, tom lane