1/* Set the title of a process.
2 Copyright (C) 2010-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4This file is part of the libiberty library.
5Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
7License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9
10Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13Library General Public License for more details.
14
15You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
17write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
18Boston, 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
33Set the title of a process to @var{fmt}. va args not supported for now,
34but defined for compatibility with BSD.
35
36@end deftypefn
37
38*/
39
40void
41setproctitle (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

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