NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     setproctitle - set process title

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <stdlib.h>

     void
     setproctitle(const char *fmt, ...);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The setproctitle() function sets the invoking process's title.  The process
 title is set to the last component of the program name, followed by
     a colon and the formatted string specified by fmt.  If fmt is NULL, the
     colon and formatted string are omitted.  The length of a process title is
     limited to 2048 bytes.

EXAMPLES    [Toc]    [Back]

     Set the process title to the program name, with no further information:

           setproctitle(NULL);

     Set the process title to the program name, an informational string, and
     the process id:

           setproctitle("foo! (%d)", getpid());

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     ps(1), w(1), getprogname(3), printf(3)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The setproctitle() function first appeared in NetBSD 1.0.

BSD                             April 13, 1994                             BSD