Thank you Matthew for the change. And thank you Eli for cluing me in that ps auxw is the magic spell to see the fuller/wider-than-"-Fw", truly untruncated command line.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: > At Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:51:13 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: >> Two hours ago, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> > At Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:28:54 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> > > 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. >> > >> > I've pushed that change. Racket sets the process name to match the -N >> > argument if supplied, otherwise it sets the name to match argv[0]. >> > >> > The latter makes `raco exe'-produced executables have the expected >> > name, and the former makes `drracket' start a process with the name >> > `drracket' (instead of `gracket'). >> >> I'm still seeing this from `ps auxw': >> >> eli 23017 44.0 3.2 451000 130804 pts/5 Rl+ 14:48 0:01 >> /home/eli/src/plt/bin/gracket -N ../../bin/drracket -l- drracket/dr >> >> wasn't that suppose to change? > > No. In Linux, each process has a name and a command line. The default > `ps' mode shows names, but BSD mode (among others) shows command lines. > The prctl() change sets only the name. > > It looks like the command line can be changed in Linux by overwriting > the space used by the current command-line arguments. I'm not sure > that's a good idea, partly due to the way a command-line would have to > be synthesized, and partly because the actual command-line already has > distinguishing information, but I can look into it more. > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
