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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:47:41 +0600
From: Anuradha Ratnaweera <ARatnaweera@virtusa.com>
To: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
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Subject: Re: Changing argv[0] under Linux.
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On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:59, DervishD wrote:
>
> I want to change the argv[0] a program shows, in order 
> to be pretty-printed when issuing 'ps', 'top' or
> other commands.

Sorry about the late reply.

This is done nicely in PostgreSQL.  Check source at early
initializing parts of the postmaster.

	Anuradha

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