mimocrocodil <4deni...@gmail.com> writes: > I seen what sendmail actually changes they arguments of command line for nice > output of "ps ax" command. > > May be it changes his argc/argv for this?
Yes. Some unix C programs, daemons usually, modify argv to change what ps shows. It works with D too, I tried it (but have to cast away immutable). Here is a quick demo, assuming args[0] has enough room. import std.c.string; import core.thread; void main(string[] args) { auto a = cast(char*)args[0].ptr; strcpy(a, "xyzzy"); // change ps output to list us as xyzzy Thread.sleep(dur!("seconds")(10)); } $ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 355 ttys000 0:00.01 /bin/bash --noediting -i 358 ttys000 0:00.00 xyzzy Since you have to be unsafe anyway, casting to char* from in string would be no worse than string.