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You remember correctly, some SysV based systems won't let you change the process name. I can't remember if I encountered this on HP-UX or AIX but yeah. 1.13 How do I change the name of my program (as seen by `ps')?

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Re^4: Hiding/masking your username or password
by afoken (Chancellor) on Nov 30, 2009 at 16:51 UTC

    Just tried assigning to $0 and $^X on Win2000 with Strawberry Perl. Task Manager shows perl.exe in Processes whatever I try. So, it also does not work on Windows.

    Alexander

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