From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-12-12T21:59:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it possible to force a Ruby program to run as a proc name different than "ruby"?

Brian Candler wrote:
> I単aki Baz Castillo wrote:
>> So, is there some way to force the process to appear as "rb_program" in
>> /proc/PID/status?
> 
> Have you tried
> 
>   $0 = 'rb_program'
> 
> ?

... or I can't remember the details, but perhaps you needed 
$0.replace('rb_program'), but that doesn't work for newer versions of 
Ruby where $0 is a frozen string, hence the required special code:

> $progname = $0
> alias $PROGRAM_NAME $0
> alias $0 $progname
> trace_var(:$0) {|val| $PROGRAM_NAME = val} # update for ps

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