Is there any interest in attempting to provide a moderately portable setproctitle()? (I think it would be reasonable for it to, on some systems, simply fail to do anything...)
Apparently, this functionality exists in "util-linux-ng", and sendmail has an implementation that works on Linux, but it seems to be one of those things that has been reinvented FAR too many times. (I have, in the last five minutes, also found implementations in postgresql, and a libproctitle or some such, and apparently a perl implementation...) This seems like something that ought to be implemented as cleanly and correctly as possible, once, and then not duplicated, because duplicating it transcends our normal understanding of "error-prone", taking it to whole new levels. I am not volunteering to create a genuinely portable implementation, but I'd be willing to volunteer to write a reasonably durable implementation that would work against glibc, probably. -s
