From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-05-17T08:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: $0 is truncated

On May 16, 2009, at 13:36, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>>  [ ] it's OK (for you) that $0 is not always corresponding to process
>>      name read by ps etc.; in this case if you set $0 longer than the
>>      limit, $0 will be updated but the proc title will be truncated  
>> to
>>      the limit.
>
> Yes, that would be my preferred option.
>
> I don't mind whether $0 is frozen. Actually, I wrote $0 = ...
> originally, and only changed it to $0.replace(...) as a workaround.

In this case, why is it important that you check $0? Why not use any  
other global variable?