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From: joe@bwdlh111.BNR.CA (Joe Waddington)
Subject: program can't change argv[0]
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.001310.20327@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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Reply-To: joe@bwdlh111.BNR.CA (Joe Waddington)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Keywords:argv[0]  
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 90 00:13:10 GMT

I hope someone out there can help me.

I am running HP-UX 7.0 on an HP 9000/345.  I wrote and compiled the 
following C-program hoping it would change the name that I saw when 
I type 'ps -ef'.  It works under HP-UX 6.5 and SunOS4.0.3 and SunOS 
4.1.1.

any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Joe


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#include <stdio.h>

main( argc, argv )
int argc;
char **argv;
{
char *p;

fprintf( stdout, "prog_name is :%s.\n",argv[0]);
p = argv[0];
*p++ = 'p';
*p++ = 'p';
*p++ = 'p';
fprintf( stdout, "prog_name is :%s.\n",argv[0]);

}
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