1 /* Set the title of a process.
2 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4 This file is part of the libiberty library.
5 Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9
10 Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
14
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16 License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
17 write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
18 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
19
20 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
21 #include "config.h"
22 #endif
23 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H
24 #include <sys/types.h>
25 #include <sys/prctl.h>
26 #endif
27 #include "ansidecl.h"
28
29 /*
30
31 @deftypefn Supplemental void setproctitle (const char *@var{fmt}, ...)
32
33 Set the title of a process to @var{fmt}. va args not supported for now,
34 but defined for compatibility with BSD.
35
36 @end deftypefn
37
38 */
39
40 void
setproctitle(const char * name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,...)41 setproctitle (const char *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, ...)
42 {
43 #ifdef PR_SET_NAME
44 /* On GNU/Linux this sets the top visible "comm", but not
45 necessarily the name visible in ps. */
46 prctl (PR_SET_NAME, name);
47 #endif
48 }
49