Re: [Exim] WISHLIST: program name indicating current job

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Paul Civati wrote:

> > It whould be very usefull to see with ps ax what each
> > instance of exim is doing right now (like sendmail does).
>
> AIUI this is a bit of a non-portable hack, ie. it fiddles with argv[0]
> and will work for BSD ps, but not SYSV ps.

Precisely. It doesn't work on Solaris for a start, and I develop on
Solaris. That's why I invented exiwhat.


On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> Like I said, if the WISHLIST item submitter could explain more precisely
> what he'd like to see in ps ax output, I'll send Philip diffs.

I'm not keen...

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