> -----Original Message----- > From: vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Klaus Schmidinger > > [snip] > > Well, each thread can be given a "description", so if > somebody finds a way to make the 'ps' list show a given > string for a particular thread, it should be possible to show > something more informative here. > Yeah, it would be nice - but the linux kernel is missing support for setproctitle(), and the only user-space implementations I can find use the incredibly hacky method of overwriting the characters in the argv[] array. An example implementation: http://cvs.linux-ha.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/linux-ha/heartbeat/setproctitle. c?rev=1.10.2.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup. Chris
