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112 lines
3.3 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice immediately at the beginning of the file, without modification,
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.\" this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. This work was done expressly for inclusion into FreeBSD. Other use
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.\" is permitted provided this notation is included.
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.\" 4. Absolutely no warranty of function or purpose is made by the author
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.\" Peter Wemm.
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.\" 5. Modifications may be freely made to this file providing the above
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.\" conditions are met.
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.\"
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.\" $Id: setproctitle.3,v 1.2 1996/01/01 08:27:41 peter Exp $
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.\"
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.\" The following requests are required for all man pages.
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.Dd December 16, 1995
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.Os FreeBSD
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.Dt SETPROCTITLE 3
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm setproctitle
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.Nd set the process title for
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.Xr ps 1
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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#include <libutil.h>
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.Pp
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.Ft void
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.Fn setproctitle "const char *fmt" "..."
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.Pp
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Link with
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.Va -lutil
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on the
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.Xr cc 1
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command line.
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm setproctitle
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library routine sets the process title that appears on the
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.Xr ps 1
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command.
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.Pp
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The title is set from the executable's name, followed by the
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result of a
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.Xr printf 3
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style expansion of the arguments as specified by the
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.Va fmt
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argument.
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.Pp
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If
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.Va fmt
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is NULL, the process title is reset to simply the name of the executable.
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.\" The following requests should be uncommented and used where appropriate.
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.\" This next request is for sections 2 and 3 function return values only.
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.\" .Sh RETURN VALUES
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.\" This next request is for sections 1, 6, 7 & 8 only
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.\" .Sh ENVIRONMENT
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.\" .Sh FILES
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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To set the title on a daemon to indicate it's activity:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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setproctitle("talking to %s", inet_ntoa(addr));
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.Ed
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.\" This next request is for sections 1, 6, 7 & 8 only
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.\" (command return values (to shell) and fprintf/stderr type diagnostics)
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.\" .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.\" The next request is for sections 2 and 3 error and signal handling only.
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.\" .Sh ERRORS
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ps 1 ,
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.Xr w 1 ,
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.Xr kvm 3 ,
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.Xr kvm_getargv 3 ,
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.Xr printf 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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.Nm setproctitle
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is implicitly non-standard. Other methods of causing the
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.Xr ps 1
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command line to change, including copying over the argv[0] string are
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also implicitly non-portable. It is preferable to use an operating system
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supplied
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.Nm setproctitle
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if present.
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.Pp
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Unfortunately, it is possible that there are other calling conventions
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to other versions of
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.Nm setproctitle ,
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although none have been found by the author as yet. This is believed to be
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the predominant convention.
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.Pp
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It is thought that the implementation is compatible with other systems,
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including
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.Nm NetBSD
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and
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.Nm BSD/OS .
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm setproctitle
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first appeared in FreeBSD at version 2.2. Other operating systems have
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similar functions.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.Nm Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
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stole the idea from the
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.Nm Sendmail 8.7.3
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source code by
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.Nm Eric Allman <eric@sendmail.org> .
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.\" .Sh BUGS
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