Make process title - % complete

Rink Springer rink at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 19 14:24:16 UTC 2009


Hi Ivan,

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 03:52:30PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> if nobody objects, I'll commit it :)

I seem to recall that setproctitle() is quite expensive to call; perhaps
it would make sense offer a flag to prevent make(1) from calling it? [1]

Anyway, the feature looks nice! I'd like to have it...

[1] I'm unsure how expensive it is compared to fork(1)-ing etc; I'd
    expect it's negligable but who knows...

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