• Fact one this node would be better titled changing a process name under Solaris, but because a previous node with a similar topic used the word "title" I decided to use the same title.
  • Fact two on my mac os x box, the following program changes the title of the process according to ps However, the exact same program run under Solaris does not fool ps.
  • Question one what can I do to get a process listing under Solaris that shows the name of the process as changed by $0
  • Fact three I would have ended the previous sentence with a question mark, but that would look too much like some sort of Perl syntax or the other.
  • Fact four Here is the code in question: 
    my $new_name = 'terrences_process';
$0 = $new_name;

my $login = getlogin || 'tmbranno';
warn $login;

my %ps = (
          'Darwin' => [qw(ps aux)],
          'SunOS'  => [qw(ps -eaf)]
          );
my $uname = `uname`;
chomp $uname;

my $cmd = join ' ', @{$ps{$uname}}, '|', 'grep', $login , '|', 'grep',
+ $new_nam\
e;
warn $cmd;
my $ps = `$cmd`;

warn $ps;

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