[Xastir-dev] How's this look (process naming)?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> 28059  0.4  4.1 37672 10700 pts/18  R    12:44   0:02 xastir
> 28062  0.0  0.4 17164 1196 pts/18   S    12:44   0:00 x-spider daemon (xastir)
> 29536  0.0  0.4 17164 1200 pts/18   S    12:53   0:00 x-spider client (xastir)
> 30093  0.1  4.1 37672 10700 pts/18  S    12:54   0:00 xastir
> 30095  0.3  4.1 37672 10700 pts/18  S    12:54   0:00 xastir
> 30096  0.0  4.1 37672 10700 pts/18  S    12:54   0:00 xastir
>
>
> That shows one Xastir main thread (28059) that has an x_spider
> server daemon running (28062) with a connected client process
> (29536), a supervisory thread for linux pthreads (30093) and
> read/write threads that are connected to firenet (30095/30096).
>
> Anyone know whether one can change the process name for threads?
>
> Note, the above listing shows up in "ps".  For "top" we still see
> "xastir" for all six.

Just figured out I can type 'c' in "top" and see the modified
process names.  Yea!

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