On 4/13/05, Chris Warren <dvb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -----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 This seems to be the way to do it. See [1] and [2]. There are other tools that uses this method e.g. readproctitle in Dan Bernstein's deamontools e.g. [3] Bye Ulrich [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/18/34 [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/20/208 [3] http://web.mit.edu/afs/sipb/service/qmail/src/admin/daemontools-0.76/compile/readproctitle.c
