NAME

Sys::Proctitle - modify proctitle on Linux

SYNOPSIS

      use Sys::Proctitle qw/:all/;
      setproctitle( "my new title" );
      setproctitle( qw/my new title/ );
      $s=getproctitle;

     or

      {
        # set proctitle while in block
        my $proctitle=Sys::Proctitle->new( 'my new title' );
        ...
      }

INSTALLATION

     perl Makefile.PL
     make
     make test
     make install

DEPENDENCIES

• This module works only on linux.
• perl 5.8.0

DESCRIPTION

"Sys::Proctitle" provides an interface for setting the process title shown by "ps", "top" or similar tools on Linux. Why do we need this? One could simply change $0 to achieve the same result. Well, first setting $0 did not work with 5.8.0. Further, setting $0 won't work with mod_perl.

Procedural Interface
setproctitle( arg1, arg2, ... argN )

        all arguments are joined with "\0". The resulting string is set as
        process title.

getproctitle()

        returns the current process title. On Linux the space useable as
        process title consists of the original space for argv the process
        was executed with plus the space of the original environment. This
        function returns the current content of this buffer.

        The length of the returned string is the maximum process title
        length.

Object Interface
new( arg1, arg2, ... argN )

        the current process title is saved. Then the arguments are passed to
        "setproctitle".

DESTROY()

restores the saved process title.

EXPORT

None by default.

On demand "setproctitle" and "getproctitle" are exported.

The ":all" Exporter tag exports "setproctitle" and "getproctitle".

SEE ALSO

Apache::ShowStatus

AUTHOR

Torsten Foertsch, <torsten.foertsch@gmx.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Torsten Foertsch

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.