From owner-cvs-all Fri Sep 8 11:31:15 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B19A37B443; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e88ISBe56232; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:28:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e88IRln55653; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:27:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200009081827.e88IRln55653@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Paul Richards Cc: Brian Somers , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/sendmail/src conf.h src/include unistd.h src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h setproctitle.3 setproctitle.c src/sys/sys param.h In-Reply-To: Message from Paul Richards of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 00:47:11 BST." <39B828FF.ECCAE46@originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:27:47 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Brian Somers wrote: > > > > The general concensus (between peter & I, and later jdp) was that > > setproctitle() is not ``standard''. > > On the basis of that argument I'd say it shouldn't be in libc either :-) Ah, but as it's the only supported way of altering process arguments, it should IMHO be available as standard. Personally, I think all the sysctl stuff should be front-ended with a usable API.... and putting this stuff in libc seems more logical than having a libsysctl. > Paul. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message