Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow setting qemu process name

["Todd T. Fries" <todd@fries.net>]

Penned by Andi Kleen on 20090723 14:01.42, we have:
| > | +static void set_proc_name(const char *prefix, const char *s)
| > | +{
| > | +#ifdef __linux__
| > | +   char name[16];
| > | +   if (!s)
| > | +       return;
| > | +   /* Could rewrite argv[0] too, but that's a bit more complicated.
| > | +      This simple way is enough for `top'. */
| > | +    snprintf(name, sizeof name, "%s-%.10s", prefix, s);
| > | +    prctl(PR_SET_NAME, name);
| > #elif defined(__OpenBSD__)
| >     if (!s)
| >         setproctitle("%s-%.10s", prefix, s);
| 
| Are you sure? A google codesearch on openbsd.org doesn't find
| any references to PR_SET_NAME in the system.
| 
| -Andi
| 
| -- 
| ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

I didn't use PR_SET_NAME, read the code..

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=setproctitle
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