How do I change the process name of an Erlang VM?
It isn't very convenient to have beam listed when I do ps -A...
Somewhat related to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2255444/changing-the-process-name-of-a-python-script
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You would have to overwrite the content of argv[0] in C in Linux. Now how to do that from erlang ... Well you might need to start the erlang process from within a C wrapper .. Just my 2 cent
snies
2010-02-17 23:11:42
+1: I'll look into it... thanks!
jldupont
2010-02-17 23:25:47
here is more details: http://stupefydeveloper.blogspot.com/2008/10/linux-change-process-name.html
snies
2010-02-17 23:57:11