Hi, > As I've written in a previous message, I know nothing of such other > programs, but I'd be intrested to learn more.
Modifying argv[] has been around since V6 unix to my knowledge. Some games used to modify it so other users could see your score via ps etc. Some programs even had non-frivolous uses. BSD had the setproctitle() function specifically for this purpose and the linux kernel /proc/*/cmdline code has comments refering to this even though linux libc does not contain the function. Several people have implemented varients of setproctitle() see [1]. Several scripting languages (Python and PHP that I know of) have setproctitle() implementations although the implementations are poor/buggy on linux by all accounts. [1] http://stupefydeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/linux-change-process-name.html -- Bob Dunlop _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
