From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@...>
Date: 2001-09-01T22:39:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20668] Re: Changing a program's name at run time via $0...

Armin Roehrl <armin@approximity.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 01 September 2001 03:04, you wrote:
> > Anyone have any ideas how to change a program's name while it's
> > being executed (specifically on FreeBSD)?
> >
> > #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
> > $0 = 'other_name'
> > sleep(60)
> >
> > 	(quickly dash to another keyboard and type ps (auxwww|-ef))
> > Doesn't seem to work...  <:~( Anyone else have any luck trying this or
> > thoughts on how to get it to work?  -sc
> Sorry, I don't know how to do this.
> What do you need that for?

It's something a lot of long-lived applications running in the background do 
to report progress, for example.  It's a way to report status easily to 
everyone in a human-readable format that is concentrated in one place (a ps 
listing).

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