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3.2 KiB
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115 lines
3.2 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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.\" $FreeBSD$
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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
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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 process title
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
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.Fd #include <unistd.h>
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.Ft void
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.Fn setproctitle "const char *fmt" "..."
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn 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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If the
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.Va fmt
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argument begins with a
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.Dq -
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character, the executable's name is skipped.
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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 restored.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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To set the title on a daemon to indicate its 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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.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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.Fn 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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.Fn 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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.Fn 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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.Nx
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and
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.Bsx .
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Fn setproctitle
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first appeared in
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.Fx 2.2 .
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Other operating systems have
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similar functions.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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.An Peter Wemm Aq peter@FreeBSD.org
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stole the idea from the
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.Sy "Sendmail 8.7.3"
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source code by
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.An Eric Allman Aq eric@sendmail.org .
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.Sh BUGS
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Never pass a string with user-supplied data as a format without using
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.Ql %s .
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An attacker can put format specifiers in the string to mangle your stack,
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leading to a possible security hole.
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This holds true even if the string was built using a function like
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.Fn snprintf ,
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as the resulting string may still contain user-supplied conversion specifiers
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for later interpolation by
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.Fn setproctitle .
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.Pp
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Always use the proper secure idiom:
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.Pp
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.Dl setproctitle("%s", string);
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