From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200005111528.LAA13719@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: setproctitle() no longer used?
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	Peter Eisentraut at "May 11, 2000 11:54:03 am"
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 11:28:12 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>,
	pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Oh.  Can you look at the setproctitle code on your platform and see
> > how it implements it?
> 
> In the end I believe we'll make the world a better place if we're using
> setproctitle when available. Sendmail does. If someone really complains
> about speed loss we can always make it an option not to use it, but I
> won't buy into that until I see some profiling evidence.

Good point.  I just did it because it worked on BSD, and I don't have
setproctitle.  If sendmail does it by default if setproctitle exists,
maybe that is the way to go.

BSDI 4.01 doesn't have setproctitle, but I don't need it because I can
just assign anything in there.

I saw the FreeBSD code, and it seems they have added a sysctl() call in
the library setproctitle code to handle it.

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