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From: koenig@carina.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Harald Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: how to change the process name in INIX?
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Date: 28 Jun 91 07:29:41 GMT
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Is there a way that a process changes its own name to show the current run
state?  strcpy(argv[0],"new name") doesn't work (in BSD this works, but the
IRIX (3.3.2 and 4.0) ps shows the old name).

Harald Koenig