Re: setproctitle() no longer used?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: setproctitle() no longer used?
Date: 2000-05-10 21:35:25
Message-ID: 200005102135.RAA01109@candle.pha.pa.us
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> The Hermit Hacker writes:
>
> > Well, that would explain that, now, wouldn't it? did we remove this
> > somewhere along the way? *raised eyebrow*
>
> There was no setproctitle in 6.5.* either.
>
> I'm guessing that the argv[0] = "the string you want" method no longer
> works in FreeBSD 4.0??? In any case, as per previous discussion, I did

I am quite surprised. I though all BSD's allows this. It is done using
kvm. I am not sure the ps thing works in the backend process is swapped
out.

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