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      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
     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