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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Changing process names on the fly
Message-ID: <11668@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Nov 89 22:02:29 GMT
References: <102@mcdd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <102@mcdd1.UUCP> mcd@mcdd1.UUCP (Martin Dew) writes:
>Using System V is it possible to change the name of an already
>executing process ?

Processes don't have names, just numbers.

If you mean, change argv[0], I think that would be VERY dangerous.