Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (pgman@s5-03.ppp.op.net [209.152.195.67]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00395 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 11:32:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA13810; Thu, 11 May 2000 11:32:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200005111532.LAA13810@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: setproctitle() no longer used? In-Reply-To: from The Hermit Hacker at "May 11, 2000 08:48:13 am" To: The Hermit Hacker Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 11:32:00 -0400 (EDT) CC: Peter Eisentraut , Vince Vielhaber , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL72 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200005/697 > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > 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. > > Its a rare thing, but definitely agree with Peter here :) I think I do too. Let me add this to the TODO list: * use setproctitle() if it exists for 'ps' display of status -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026