openssh unix dev - Jun 2001 - setproctitle

The portable OpenSSH source comes with an implementation of
setproctitle() that on some systems (Solaris for example) does nothing.
The current sendmail distributions have an alternate setproctitle()
that tries to get the effect on a wide range of systems.

Would there be any interest in a patch for the portable OpenSSH that
uses the sendmail setproctitle as a starting point to get setproctitle
functionality on more systems ?

Note I haven't done the work yet, but wanted to know if there was
interest first.

--
Darren J Moffat

It has been talked about in the past, but no one has gone out of their way
to actually do the work.  It would be nice if setproctitle() worked on
majority of the platforms instead of on just one or two.

Just for some of us.. it's well.=) Not been a high priority item.

I'm willing to accept a patch to fix this.

- Ben

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Darren Moffat wrote:
> The portable OpenSSH source comes with an implementation of
> setproctitle() that on some systems (Solaris for example) does nothing.
> The current sendmail distributions have an alternate setproctitle()
> that tries to get the effect on a wide range of systems.
>
> Would there be any interest in a patch for the portable OpenSSH that
> uses the sendmail setproctitle as a starting point to get setproctitle
> functionality on more systems ?
>
> Note I haven't done the work yet, but wanted to know if there was
> interest first.
>
> --
> Darren J Moffat
>
>

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Darren Moffat wrote:
:The portable OpenSSH source comes with an implementation of
:setproctitle() that on some systems (Solaris for example) does nothing.
:The current sendmail distributions have an alternate setproctitle()
:that tries to get the effect on a wide range of systems.

it only works on hp-ux right now, which uses pstat(2) for command string.

i looked at sendmail's code before deciding it was cleaner and easier to
start with openbsd setproctitle.c and add title methods as needed and as
they were understood.  and i don't know what issues there might be with
sendmail's license.