Re: setproctitle

['DervishD']

    Hi Robert :)

 * Robert White <rwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
> > The command-line arguments are being fetched from the process address
> > space, i.e. simply editing argv[] in userspace will have the desired
> > effect. Though this code is butt ugly.
[...]
> Can the entirety of arg[] be moved to a newly allocated region, if
> so how?  (e.g. wouldn't I have to have access to overwrite
> mm->arg_start etc?

    That was one of the problems I was having: overwriting the memory
you already have is easy, but moving... I mean, you realloc and move
the memory but the kernel doesn't notice it, am I wrong?
 
> I'd prefer a setthreadtitle(char * new_title) such that the
> individual threads in a process (including the master thread, and
> so setproctitle() function is covered) could be re-titled to
> declare their purposes.  It would make debugging and logging a lot
> easier and/or more meaningful sometimes. 8-)

    Exactly ;)
 
> I'd be willing to work on this if there is interest.

    I'm VERY interested, but the problem is that in any case I won't
be able to use that in my programs since portability is sometimes an
issue :( Not all OS are able of such things. The problem, in the end,
is that changing the name of the process is not a standard thing...

    Thanks for your help :)

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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