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Date: | 2008-10-10 (04:55) |
From: | Dave Benjamin <dave@r...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Writing to argv[0] |
Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > Dave Benjamin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any way for an OCaml program to change its name in the >> process table? Assigning to Sys.argv.(0) has no effect. > > > Write a C wrapper for that. And this trick seems Linux specific (it has > no sense in Posix) -maybe working on few other OSes. It doesn't seem like it's possible, even if I drop to C. Writing to "caml_exe_name" does nothing, and "caml_main_argv" is declared static. Oh well - judging from what I've read, it seems this technique has always been somewhat of a hack anyway... Thanks, Dave