At least on my Linux, even ps -AFw truncates the command-line pretty quickly.
Plus it would be helpful to see the exe name in plain ps or in top. Since I posted, I learned more about .pid files and such. So if I have 2 more Racket executables running, now I know how to ferret out which is which -- provided I make a /var/run/*.pid for each, and look in each one, and so on. Even so, it would be helpful for the exe name to show up in ps or top, for a more casual check of which process is which. Plus a Racket-produced exe would appear like more of a "first-class" process. So thank you for considering the feature request. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: > At Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:13:02 -0400, Neil Van Dyke 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. > > That probably doesn't work under Linux, or maybe it would affect the > output of `ps a'. > > But `ps a' already reports a more useful result, so that may be the > immediate answer, Greg. Probably there's a way to make `top' show the > same information as `ps a'. > > To change the name shown by `ps', it looks like Racket could call > prctl() with PR_SET_NAME --- at least for Linux (2.6.9 and up). I'll > look into that more. > > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
