Changing process names on the fly

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Thu Nov 23 09:02:29 AEST 1989


In article <102 at mcdd1.UUCP> mcd at mcdd1.UUCP (Martin Dew) writes:
>Using System V is it possible to change the name of an already
>executing process ?

Processes don't have names, just numbers.

If you mean, change argv[0], I think that would be VERY dangerous.



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