Re: Bug#852451: ITP: rname -- invoke a program under a different name

2017-01-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 05:19:49PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > The rname utility invokes a specified program, passing a different name > instead of the name of the program executable. You are searching for symbolic links? Bastian -- "That unit is a woman." "A mass of conflict

Re: Bug#852451: ITP: rname -- invoke a program under a different name

2017-01-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:13:13AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 05:19:49PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > The rname utility invokes a specified program, passing a different name > > instead of the name of the program executable. > > You are searching for symbolic links?

Re: Bug#852451: ITP: rname -- invoke a program under a different name

2017-01-24 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 05:24:37PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > (The shell needs to be bash, mksh, zsh or similar to work; dash and > others don't support -a for exec.) In zsh you can just use the built-in functionality, f.ex. ARGV0=arp busybox

Re: Bug#852451: ITP: rname -- invoke a program under a different name

2017-01-24 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 05:24:37PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > This is definitely useful (I've needed this myself at multiple times), > but wouldn't it be better if this were part of coreutils or util-linux > or something similar? That's what Openwall does. http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvswe

Re: Bug#852451: ITP: rname -- invoke a program under a different name

2017-01-24 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/24/2017 04:19 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Peter Pentchev > > * Package name: rname > Version : 1.0.2 > Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev > * URL : https://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/rname/ > * License : BSD-2-cl