From: Dave Benjamin <dave@ramenlabs.com>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>,
caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Writing to argv[0]
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:33:17 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0810100929340.18041@spoomusic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081010151143.GA15400@annexia.org>
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 05:31:11PM +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
>> Dave Benjamin wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/ps_status.c?rev=1.33.2.1;content-type=text%2Fplain
>
> PostgreSQL offers this code to change the proc title on many different
> platforms.
Thanks, Rich - this looks very comprehensive - they even go out of their
way to support Windows! =) However, unless I'm mistaken, I still have the
problem of not being able to access "argc" and "argv" to pass into
save_ps_display_args(). I suppose I could embed OCaml in a C program...
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 16:33 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
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 [this message]
2008-10-10 16:59 ` Richard Jones
2008-10-10 20:19 ` Dave Benjamin
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