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From: "Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: How to name the pthread or Renaming?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:12:46 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:19 AM, ziaudeen <Ziaudeen.Abdulrazak@sun.com> wrote:
>
>  Bert Wesarg wrote:
>  Ok, I was wrong, the name you can set with prctl is indeed a
> per-thread attribute. you can see this either in the stat file from
> the /proc filesystem (inside parentheses) or with ps and the comm
> format, not the args format, and the same with top, where you switch
> this with 'c'.
>
>  Could you please tell me exactly what is the command " ps -c" Is it ? I
> don't understand the comm mode means..
I wrote 'comm format' and not 'mode'. if you mean with the '-c' the
misc option 'true command name', than why do you put a '-' in front of
it? the help message shows only a single 'c' => "ps c"

Bert

>
>  - Ziaudeen