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On 2024-01-23 12:32, Steve Beck via Cygwin wrote:
> Hope this is an appropriate question for this list:
> Version 3.4.10 (of cygwin1.dll - cygcheck output attached):
> I am trying to set the process command name of a forked process.  Is there a prescribed way to do this in Cygwin?
> I looked for either prctl(2) from Linux or setproctitle(3) from FreeBSD but they don't link.  I've tried things like overwriting the contents of argv[0], but that didn't work either (I'm assuming it's too late by the time the /proc entry has been set up).

Run/exec/fork/spawn via a symlink with the name you want to see?

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