Re: setproctitle()

[Jim Meyering]

Peter Seebach wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for volunteering.  Yes, this would be useful.
There are many implementations floating around.

Can you assign copyright to the FSF?
If so, it'd be good to get the process started.
You'd choose one of the reqest-* files here:

    git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=tree;f=doc/Copyright;hb=HEAD

fill it out and send it.