[BusyBox] Re: Problem with process accounting

[Oron Peled]

On 20 Nov 2002 13:46:02 +0200
Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad at benyossef.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 10:59, Michael Sternberg wrote:
> > ...
> > in "cmdline" there is a '\0' in place of last slash !!
> ...
> In short - it's the application (or whatever spawned it) fault.

This "reflection" of argv[0] to the outside world via ps(1) is common
to most Unices.  Moreover, some applications carefully change argv[0]
to convey important info to the outside world.

A famous example is sendmail. If you connect to the smtp
port on your mailserver and run ps on the mailserver
you should see (at least) two sendmail processes (one
waiting for connections and one serving your connection).
Note the difference in their names... cute, isn't it?

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