On 10 Dec 2008, at 13:31, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> Would it be useful to all/many/some/nobody to code up a "feature"
> whereby the Exim child processes have something descriptive in their
> proccess name, such as:
>
> 2930 ? Ss 4:02 exim -bd -q15m
> 20045 ? S 0:00 \_ exim -bd -q15m (connection from
> 192.168.1.1)
>
> Strikes me that would not require *too* much in the way of code, and
> may
> make the output from "ps" a little more easily understandable.
Its doable on some OSes (it certainly used to be quite OS dependant on
how such stuff was done and how well it would work. In particular
some OSes used to require you to pad the initial argv out).
Nigel.
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