Re: How to obtain current child process name?

See perlvar. It's in $0; you can assign to it.

qwurx [shmem] ~ > perl -e '$0="foobar"; sleep'
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qwurx [shmem] ~ > ps auxw | grep foobar
shmem     4041  0.0  0.0   6012  1312 pts/1    S+   13:00   0:00 fooba
+r
shmem     4043  0.0  0.0   4220   584 pts/2    S+   13:00   0:00 grep 
+foobar
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Re^2: How to obtain current child process name? by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Nov 30, 2009 at 13:40 UTC
That's the process's own name. OP seems to be trying to find the name of a child that he forked off. From the discussion so far, the more general case appears to be "Given the pid of a process, how do I determine its name?"	[reply]
Re^3: How to obtain current child process name? by shmem (Chancellor) on Nov 30, 2009 at 14:50 UTC
That's the process's own name. OP seems to be trying to find the name of a child that he forked off. Yes indeed, and the forked-off process - is a process, with its name residing in `$0`. The parent wants to know it for some reason. It could: ask the kernel almighty ask his offspring to tell, and listen to what it says. Solving the first would be the "more general case" you mention. Solving the second possibly involves inter process communication (perlipc).	[reply] [d/l]