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| readproctitle(8) | FreeBSD System Manager's Manual | readproctitle(8) |
NAME
readproctitle - maintains an automatically rotated log in memory for inspection by ps(1).SYNOPSIS
readproctitle L DDESCRIPTION
L consists of any number of arguments. D is one argument consisting of at least five dots.readproctitle reads data into the end of D, shifting D to the left to make room. This means that the most recent data is visible to process-listing tools such as ps(1). readproctitle always leaves three dots at the left of D.
For example, if
readproctitle io errors: ....................
reads the data
fatal error xyz warning abc
then its command-line arguments change to
readproctitle io errors: ... xyz!warning abc!
with a newline character in place of each !. Process-listing tools typically show the newline character as ? or \n.
readproctitle exits when it reaches the end of input.
Beware that most implementations of ps(1) have small argument-length limits. These limits apply to the total length of readproctitle L D. I have not seen a system with a limit below 512 bytes.
SEE ALSO
ps(1), envdir(8), envini(8), envuidgid(8), fghack(8), multilog(8), pgrphack(8), setlock(8), setuidgid(8), setuser(8), softlimit(8), supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svscan(8), svscanboot(8), svstat(8), tai64n(8), tai64nlocal(8)
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