Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!els!dente
From: dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: How do you give a fork()ed process a name?
Summary: Giving processes names that pst understands
Keywords: fork pst sr9
Message-ID: <1729@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Sep 90 13:09:09 GMT
Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computer Centre, University of Manchester UK
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I have a program, running under SR9.7 (I know, I know, but it's a 330 sat
at home, and boy, does the electricity company love me!).  Said program
does a fork() at startup, and then the parent does the honourable thing
(i.e. exits), all because I'm too lazy to stick an '&' at the end of the
command line! ;-)

The problem is, when I do a pst, the child process shows up with just its
uid (dspst shows it as an 'unknown').  Is there any way of giving the process
a sensible name? (where *does* aegis keep it's process names?).

Cheers

Colin

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