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From: Dave Benjamin <dave@ramenlabs.com>
To: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Writing to argv[0]
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:53:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EEDFE5.8080706@ramenlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EE23BF.3080300@starynkevitch.net>

Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> 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.

It doesn't seem like it's possible, even if I drop to C. Writing to 
"caml_exe_name" does nothing, and "caml_main_argv" is declared static.

Oh well - judging from what I've read, it seems this technique has 
always been somewhat of a hack anyway...

Thanks,
Dave


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10  4:55 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 ` [Caml-list] " Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2008-10-09 15:43   ` Savanni D'Gerinel
2008-10-10  4:58     ` Dave Benjamin
2008-10-10  4:53   ` Dave Benjamin [this message]
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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