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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