"Jonathan Pryor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:08 -0700, Eric Moret wrote: >> This is a patch against mono svn trunk 104692. This adds option >> -a:<procname> to mono-service so the process name can be changed. > > Silly question, but why "-a"? I'm trying to think of what mnemonic this > is supposed to mimic...
It uses the same option name as that of exec (exec -a). I have to admit I don't know what it stands for. That said, this patch is what was documented by Aaron B. applied to the mono-service facility. Since Aaron documented exec -a, I felt it would be more consistent to reuse the same option letter for mono-service. http://abock.org/2006/02/09/changing-process-name-in-mono/ > Furthermore, wouldn't it make sense to "reuse" the -n value as the > process name instead of adding a new -a flag? mono-service -m:MESSAGE is used to define a name for the syslog facility mono-service -n:NAME is used to pick one of the services defined in the binary exe file if there is more than one. Adding mono-service -a allows for greater flexibility than reusing one of the above options since it does not change current behaviour. Some people might be "just fine" with a process name of "mono". __ Eric _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
