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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: command line shown by ps
Message-ID: <124135@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 26 Feb 91 06:09:50 GMT
References: <JOCKC.91Feb20103537@hammer.idsila.com>
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In article <JOCKC.91Feb20103537@hammer.idsila.com> jockc@hammer.idsila.com (PRIV Account) writes:
>How can a process change or obscure the command line that
>ps (and other programs like w or whodo) show for it?  

Get a copy of the sendmail source and look at setproctitle.
Basicly, it overwrites it's arguments. We include a line
in our /etc/rc that says: FILLER="                        "
to leave lots to environment space to trash (comes after arguments).
This works for BSD. I dunno what SV does.
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