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| author | Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com> | 2000-08-01 08:41:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-02 01:27:44 +0000 |
| commit | 4bc88a62f4d56d50d2cea2bb6c705aea33b892f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 281eae336a7a863e88b21a577d5df975bdb22222 /pod | |
| parent | 00c29ff8bf429b0884d885b7604c1d33f673b0c3 (diff) | |
| download | perl-4bc88a62f4d56d50d2cea2bb6c705aea33b892f4.tar.gz | |
In new BSDs changes to argv[] do not show up in ps(1) output,
instead one must use setproctitle(). This was already addressed
by change #6457, but the below has a new variant for FreeBSD 4.0
or later, and the matter is also documented more.
Subject: [ID 20000801.007] setting $0 on FreeBSD 4.x does not get reflected in /bin/ps
Message-Id: <20000801154139.A53740@yahoo-inc.com>
p4raw-link: @6457 on //depot/perl: 0c9177abdae6e91f4dfdab2ef3cc817ec901e51eon //depot/metaconfig: efc5abcdbec468dfb20e18acbe3ab6c1cd9e92c3
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6483
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 15308e45aa..e75cf35f73 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -691,6 +691,11 @@ program sees. This is more useful as a way of indicating the current program state than it is for hiding the program you're running. (Mnemonic: same as B<sh> and B<ksh>.) +Note for BSD users: setting C<$0> does not completely remove "perl" +from the ps(1) output. For example, setting C<$0> to C<"foobar"> will +result in C<"perl: foobar (perl)">. This is an operating system +feature. + =item $[ The index of the first element in an array, and of the first character |