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Diffstat (limited to 'mg.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mg.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1999,6 +1999,30 @@ Perl_magic_set(pTHX_ SV *sv, MAGIC *mg) break; #ifndef MACOS_TRADITIONAL case '0': +#ifdef HAS_SETPROCTITLE + /* The BSDs don't show the argv[] in ps(1) output, they + * show a string from the process struct and provide + * the setproctitle() routine to manipulate that. */ + { + s = SvPV(sv, len); +# if __FreeBSD_version >= 400000 + /* The - removes the "perl: " prefix, + * but not the "(perl) suffix from the ps(1) + * output, because that's what ps(1) shows if the + * argv[] is modified. */ + setproctitle("-%s", s, len + 1); +# else /* old FreeBSDs, NetBSD, OpenBSD */ + /* This doesn't really work if you assume that + * $0 = 'foobar'; will wipe out 'perl' from the $0 + * because in ps(1) output the result will be like + * sprintf("perl: %s (perl)", s) + * I guess this is a security feature: + * one (a user process) cannot get rid of the original name. + * --jhi */ + setproctitle("%s", s); +# endif + } +#endif if (!PL_origalen) { s = PL_origargv[0]; s += strlen(s); @@ -2054,9 +2078,6 @@ Perl_magic_set(pTHX_ SV *sv, MAGIC *mg) for (i = 1; i < PL_origargc; i++) PL_origargv[i] = Nullch; } -#ifdef HAS_SETPROCTITLE - setproctitle("%s", SvPV_nolen(sv)); -#endif break; #endif #ifdef USE_THREADS |