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

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:57:47AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:29:22AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >  
> >It's only default with -name. I don't think anyone would look through
> >/proc matching for process names, that would be too broken anyways.
> >If they look through ps ax they would still work.
> >  
> 
> If someone has a script today that uses top -n 1 | grep 
> qemu-system-x86_64 that script will break.

That would already break if qemu-system-x86_64 is by chance not in 
the ~20 or so processes that take the most CPU time. That is what I meant
with already broken. I consider it very likely that the scripts
all use ps at least, which is not affected.

-Andi
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