On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Zoffix Znet <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> $*PROGRAM-NAME is supposed to be a replacement for Perl 5's $0, but it > doesn't work that way. > > What I'd expect to work: > > use v6; > $*PROGRAM-NAME = 'foo'; > This is not portable and not reliable --- although it will probably work on the limited set of systems moarvm/rakudo currently run on. But the linked ticket is not quite right either: even on Unix-likes that support it, the result would be shown by 'ps' as something like 'foo [moarvm]' (exact format will depend on OS and/or 'ps' implementation). This is forced for security-related reasons, and you can't override the process's execname to control the part in brackets. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
