From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: "Todd T. Fries" <todd@fries.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow setting qemu process name
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:34:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090724093420.GA13061@amd.home.annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090723114715.GA826@fries.net>
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:47:16AM -0500, Todd T. Fries wrote:
> | +#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);
> | +#endif
In case anyone is interested, setting process titles for all Un*x-like
platforms is _really_ complex. This is how PostgreSQL does it:
http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/ps_status.c?rev=1.33.2.1;content-type=text%2Fplain
Rich.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-24 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-01 9:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow setting qemu process name Andi Kleen
2009-07-01 13:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-01 13:43 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-01 13:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-01 14:06 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-01 15:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 16:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-01 15:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 16:19 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-07-01 16:27 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 16:34 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-07-01 16:43 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 17:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-01 17:43 ` Stefan Weil
2009-07-23 11:47 ` Todd T. Fries
2009-07-23 12:01 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-23 12:58 ` Todd T. Fries
2009-07-23 14:30 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-24 9:34 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
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