Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:58:38PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > > Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:07:41PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > > > > Does Unix/Solaris have a function to change the process's name returned > > > > by $ ps -ef # ? > > > > > > hm. i assume your asking about this wrt 6793120. > > > > *shudder* ... is the issue really that big that half of Sun now knows it > > ? ;-/ > > > > no, it's just that i'm on a LOT of the bug notification aliases. > besides, i watch ksh93 bugs with interest since i keep bumping into > them. :) (hopefully, you'll be fixing 6782948 soon?)
AFAIK it may already be fixed with ksh93-integration update1 but we didn't verify that out of time constrains (the putback contains lots of bugfixes, not only those for which we filed bug reports in bugster). > > > this is kinda a > > > slippery slope. there is no public interface to do this, but you could > > > probably do it by mucking with. > > > > > > struct user -> u_comm > > > struct user -> u_psargs > > > struct user -> u_argc > > > struct user -> u_argv > > > > Umpf... that sounds a bit like a risky hack... or not ? > > > > yes, this would be very much of a hack. and it would interact poorly > with debugging tools (like libproc) which try to match process names to > address space mappings, etc. (although i imagine that there aren't too > many people out there debugging /bin/sleep.) it also opens a can of > worms, because one you start allowing random process to muck with this > info you'll get the security folks up in arms because it would become > easier to rename/hide processes, etc. Isn't that possible even right now (well, I remeber some AmigaDOS worms doing exactly that) ? > i'm afraid i might be damming myself by making this suggestion, > but would using a pre-compiled ksh script solve this problem? I think "yes" since the precompiled shell script goes through "shbinexec" and the process's argv[0] should be the binary name itself and not the shell interpreter. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
