1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Christopher G. Demetriou 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 14.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 15.\" This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou. 16.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 17.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 21.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 22.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 23.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 24.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 25.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 26.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 27.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 28.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" $Id: setproctitle.3,v 1.1 1994/04/14 03:13:42 cgd Exp $ 31.\" 32.Dd "April 13, 1994" 33.Dt SETPROCTITLE 3 34.Os NetBSD 0.9a 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm setproctitle 37.Nd set process title 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Fd #include <stdlib.h> 40.Ft void 41.Fn setproctitle "const char *fmt" "..." 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Fn setproctitle 45function sets the invoking process's title. 46The process title is set to the last component of the program 47name, followed by a colon and the formatted string specified 48by 49.Va fmt . 50If 51.Va fmt 52is NULL, the colon and formatted string are omitted. 53The length of a process title is limited to 2048 bytes. 54.Sh EXAMPLES 55Set the process title to the program name, with no further information: 56.Bd -literal -offset indent 57setproctitle(NULL); 58.Ed 59.Pp 60Set the process title to the program name, an informational string, 61and the process id: 62.Bd -literal -offset indent 63setproctitle("foo! (%s)", getpid()); 64.Ed 65.Sh SEE ALSO 66.Xr ps 1 , 67.Xr w 1 , 68.Xr printf 3 69.Sh HISTORY 70The 71.Fn setproctitle 72function first appeared in 73.Nx 0.9a . 74