+½ on setproctitle

Posted Oct 8, 2011 15:52 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: +1 on setproctitle by dskoll
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

The pgsql code does the same. Plus a handful of extra checks to ensure linearity etc. of course, because it wants to be multi-platform and safe. Now let's rather think about why glibc still does not have the feature (implementing setproctitle via clobbering of argv).