From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-12-18T17:10:20+09:00
Subject: Re: setting $0

Hi,

In message "setting $0"
    on 03/12/18, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

|With the following file, t.rb,
|
|----
|#!/usr/bin/env ruby
|
|$0 = 'My Application'
|puts $0
|----
|
|the output is:
|
|$ ruby -v t.rb
|ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-05) [i686-linux]
|My Applicati
|
|Why does it get truncated?

It's a Linux restriction.  Wishing if linux has setproctitle(3).
Interestingly, my linux box has a setproctitle man page.

							matz.