Could it be that the issue is not argv[0] at all, but the way the program is launched by xinetd? I'm guessing that this is a daemon process.
Sent from my iPad On Mar 26, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Hugh Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't know about 'do by default', but since command line switches are > already being used; '-o', the cost of one more seems slight and > reasonably safe as it would be backwardly compatible and forwardly > useful... > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: >> Greg Hendershott wrote at 03/26/2011 12:14 PM: >>> >>> $ raco exe -o foo foo.rkt >>> $ ./foo & >>> $ ps #shows it as "racket" not as "foo". >>> $ top #shows it as "racket" not as "foo". >>> >>> Is there way I can make it show up as "foo"? >>> >> >> You can often do this in C on Unix variants by mutating the string buffers >> pointed to by "argv" argument as passed to the "main" function. >> To do this for executables created in the manner above, I suspect that >> someone would have to modify the C code for Racket, but I have not verified >> this. (I started to look at the 5.0.2 code just now, and didn't immediately >> see an obvious way without modifying the C code, but I have to run to >> something now, so you might see a way if you read through the code.) >> >> Use this feature with discretion, since the effect can be confusing to >> people trying to debug. (Some daemons have been known to abuse this feature >> to show application-specific status, preventing you from seeing the original >> command line arguments. A colleague once hacked an old Unix game to show up >> in the process table as "vi resume" on time-sharing systems, back when >> employers were more motivated to keep employees happy.) And exercise the >> usual system programming caution, since you don't want to stomp on the wrong >> memory here, nor corrupt the info that "ps" and other tools will be looking >> at. >> >> In the case of the original "raco exe" question, perhaps this is something >> that Racket should be changed to do by default? I have no opinion on that. >> >> -- >> http://www.neilvandyke.org/ >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
