Re: [HACKERS] removing the exec() from doexec()

David Gould <dg@illustra.com>

From: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)

To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)

Cc: scrappy@hub.org, brett@abraxas.scene.com, pgsql-hackers@hub.org

Date: 1998-04-30T06:24:39Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> > 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...
> 
> Not even BSDI, which is BSD 4.4 like FreeBSD.

ubik:~$ uname -a
Linux ubik 2.0.32 #1 Wed Nov 19 00:46:45 EST 1997 i586 unknown
ubik:~$ perl -e '$0 = "it_works!";system "ps p $$"'
  PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
 7629  p8 S    0:00 it_works!                                                  

-dg