From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM0Jx-000160-NQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:57:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM0Js-00015O-Ub for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:57:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54606 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MM0Js-00015L-PD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:57:52 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f185.google.com ([209.85.222.185]:53945) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MM0Js-0007zb-CE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:57:52 -0400 Received: by pzk15 with SMTP id 15so732568pzk.4 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A4B6B5B.5000106@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:57:47 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow setting qemu process name References: <20090701093251.GA12447@basil.fritz.box> <4A4B64B2.3040106@codemonkey.ws> <20090701134344.GT6760@one.firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <20090701134344.GT6760@one.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andi Kleen Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. Since it's also linux-specific behavior, having it enabled by default means a subtle difference between platforms. Regards, Anthony Liguori