[Israel.pm] change proccess name of a forked apache process

[Mikhael Goikhman]

On 19 Jul 2004 15:49:23 +0200, Itzik Lerner - Orpak wrote:
> 
> I need to change the process name ( as it will be displayed by ps) of a
> process
> 
> After I fork'd out from mod_perl  under Apache.
> 
> [...] I get a new process with it's own pid, but when looking of the
> output of ps, the process name is 'httpd',
> 
> I want to change it to something else.

You may modify $0, and this will be reflected in ps on many systems. Try:

  perl -we '$0 = "my-important-process"; sleep 100'

Regards,
Mikhael.

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