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From: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>
To: Dave Benjamin <dave@ramenlabs.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Writing to argv[0]
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:31:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EE23BF.3080300@starynkevitch.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EE22B0.3090404@ramenlabs.com>

Dave Benjamin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way for an OCaml program to change its name in the process 
> table? Assigning to Sys.argv.(0) has no effect.


Write a C wrapper for that. And this trick seems Linux specific (it has 
no sense in Posix) -maybe working on few other OSes.

Regards.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-09 15:26 Dave Benjamin
2008-10-09 15:31 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH [this message]
2008-10-09 15:43   ` [Caml-list] " Savanni D'Gerinel
2008-10-10  4:58     ` Dave Benjamin
2008-10-10  4:53   ` Dave Benjamin
2008-10-10 13:26     ` Dave Benjamin
2008-10-10 18:48       ` Jason Noakes
2008-10-10 20:11         ` Dave Benjamin
2008-10-10 15:11   ` Richard Jones
2008-10-10 16:33     ` Dave Benjamin
2008-10-10 16:59       ` Richard Jones
2008-10-10 20:19         ` Dave Benjamin

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