setproctitle

Kevin Steves stevesk at pobox.com
Wed Jun 6 08:46:57 EST 2001


On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Darren Moffat wrote:
:The portable OpenSSH source comes with an implementation of
:setproctitle() that on some systems (Solaris for example) does nothing.
:The current sendmail distributions have an alternate setproctitle()
:that tries to get the effect on a wide range of systems.

it only works on hp-ux right now, which uses pstat(2) for command string.

i looked at sendmail's code before deciding it was cleaner and easier to
start with openbsd setproctitle.c and add title methods as needed and as
they were understood.  and i don't know what issues there might be with
sendmail's license.




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