RE: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

> Wow, that really is strange.  Seems like with the -f, it looks in one
> place, as though it knows the child did not exec, so they params must be
> the same, while with no -f, it looks in the proper area.  The really
> weird thing is that even the postmaster is called postgres.  That is
> bizarre.

Yes. With -f, it looks in the process's argv... without, it looks in the
task struct where only the executable name was stored (no path or anything
else). It's a feature to prevent processes that spoof as something else...
(not very effective, IMHO)

Taral