[racket] Can raco exe assign a name other than "racket"?

At Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:51:13 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> Two hours ago, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > At Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:28:54 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > > To change the name shown by `ps', it looks like Racket could call
> > > prctl() with PR_SET_NAME --- at least for Linux (2.6.9 and up). I'll
> > > look into that more.
> > 
> > I've pushed that change. Racket sets the process name to match the -N
> > argument if supplied, otherwise it sets the name to match argv[0].
> > 
> > The latter makes `raco exe'-produced executables have the expected
> > name, and the former makes `drracket' start a process with the name
> > `drracket' (instead of `gracket').
> 
> I'm still seeing this from `ps auxw':
> 
>   eli      23017 44.0  3.2 451000 130804 pts/5   Rl+  14:48   0:01 
> /home/eli/src/plt/bin/gracket -N ../../bin/drracket -l- drracket/dr
> 
> wasn't that suppose to change?

No. In Linux, each process has a name and a command line. The default
`ps' mode shows names, but BSD mode (among others) shows command lines.
The prctl() change sets only the name.

It looks like the command line can be changed in Linux by overwriting
the space used by the current command-line arguments. I'm not sure
that's a good idea, partly due to the way a command-line would have to
be synthesized, and partly because the actual command-line already has
distinguishing information, but I can look into it more.