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Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions
.\" are met:
.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
.\" notice immediately at the beginning of the file, without modification,
.\" this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer.
.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
.\" 3. This work was done expressly for inclusion into FreeBSD. Other use
.\" is permitted provided this notation is included.
.\" 4. Absolutely no warranty of function or purpose is made by the author
.\" Peter Wemm.
.\" 5. Modifications may be freely made to this file providing the above
.\" conditions are met.
.\"
$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$
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.\" $FreeBSD$
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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.\"
.\" The following requests are required for all man pages.
.Dd December 16, 1995
.Os FreeBSD
.Dt SETPROCTITLE 3
.Sh NAME
.Nm setproctitle
.Nd set the process title for
.Xr ps 1
.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
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.Fd #include <libutil.h>
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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.Ft void
.Fn setproctitle "const char *fmt" "..."
Bump libutil revision after recent addition of setproctitle(). Install (optional) libutil.h with prototypes for the functions and document this in the man page. minor cleanups to the various routines, include the prototype file, declare return codes etc.
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.Pp
Link with
.Va -lutil
on the
.Xr cc 1
command line.
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
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.Fn setproctitle
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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library routine sets the process title that appears on the
.Xr ps 1
command.
.Pp
The title is set from the executable's name, followed by the
result of a
.Xr printf 3
style expansion of the arguments as specified by the
.Va fmt
argument.
.Pp
If
.Va fmt
Make setproctitle(NULL) restore all of the original arguments (if it's able).
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is NULL, the process title is restored.
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
Fix punctuation: "it's" -> "its"
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To set the title on a daemon to indicate its activity:
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
setproctitle("talking to %s", inet_ntoa(addr));
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ps 1 ,
.Xr w 1 ,
.Xr kvm 3 ,
.Xr kvm_getargv 3 ,
.Xr printf 3
.Sh STANDARDS
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.Fn setproctitle
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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is implicitly non-standard. Other methods of causing the
.Xr ps 1
command line to change, including copying over the argv[0] string are
also implicitly non-portable. It is preferable to use an operating system
supplied
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.Fn setproctitle
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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if present.
.Pp
Unfortunately, it is possible that there are other calling conventions
to other versions of
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.Fn setproctitle ,
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although none have been found by the author as yet. This is believed to be
the predominant convention.
.Pp
Another round of spelling fixes.
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It is thought that the implementation is compatible with other systems,
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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including
mdoc(7)'fy Reviewed by: mpp
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.Nx
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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and
Some minor man page cleanup.
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.Tn BSD/OS .
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Fn setproctitle
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first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
Other operating systems have
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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similar functions.
.Sh AUTHORS
.Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS. Use .An/.Aq
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.An Peter Wemm Aq peter@FreeBSD.org
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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stole the idea from the
Some minor man page cleanup.
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.Sy "Sendmail 8.7.3"
Bring in an initial version of setproctitle().. This is intended to replace the dozen other various hacks in the code that do all sorts of crude things including spamming the envrionment strings with the new argv string. This version is mainly inspired by the sendmail version, with a couple of ideas taken from the NetBSD implementation as well.
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source code by
.Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS. Use .An/.Aq
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.An Eric Allman Aq eric@sendmail.org .
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