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From:
Slaven Rezic
Date:
February 18, 2003 14:35
Subject:
Re: [perl #21279] Assigning to $0 or $PROGRAM_NAME does not work
Message ID:
8765rh2qu8.fsf@vran.herceg.de
"sebastiaan@kantoor.nederhost.nl (via RT)" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> writes:

> # New Ticket Created by  sebastiaan@kantoor.nederhost.nl 
> # Please include the string:  [perl #21279]
> # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. 
> # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=21279 >
> 
> 
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from sebastiaan@kantoor.nederhost.nl,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please enter your report here]
> 
> Assigning to $0 or $PROGRAM_NAME to change the display of the process in the
> ps process list seems not to work in 5.8.0. This has been confirmed on two
> configurations using both Linux kernel 2.4.19 and procps 2.0.7
> 
> The exact same assignment does work on 5.6.1 with Linux kernel 2.4.18 and
> procps 2.0.7.
> 
> If this is a known problem with Linux kernels 2.4.19 and above then it might
> be a good idea to list this in any known problem section. However, at this
> moment it appears to be a bug in perl. At this moment I am unfortunately
> unable to confirm this in a Linux kernel of the same version (all systems
> are production systems).
> 

This is a known bug and is already fixed for 5.8.1 and 5.10.0.

Regards,
	Slaven

> [Please do not change anything below this line]
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> Flags:
>     category=core
>     severity=medium
> ---
> Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:
> 
> Configured by root at Sat Dec 14 14:27:39 CET 2002.
> 
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
>   Platform:
>     osname=linux, osvers=2.4.18, archname=i686-linux
>     uname='linux mr-hat 2.4.18 #4 fri may 31 01:25:31 pdt 2002 i686 unknown '
>     config_args='-ds -e'
>     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
>     usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
>     useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
>     use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
>     usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
>   Compiler:
>     cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
>     optimize='-O3',
>     cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
>     ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010315 (release)', gccosandvers=''
>     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
>     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
>     ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
>     alignbytes=4, prototype=define
>   Linker and Libraries:
>     ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
>     libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
>     libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
>     perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
>     libc=/lib/libc-2.2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
>     gnulibc_version='2.2.5'
>   Dynamic Linking:
>     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
>     cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
> 
> Locally applied patches:
>     
> 
> ---
> @INC for perl v5.8.0:
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
>     .
> 
> ---
> Environment for perl v5.8.0:
>     HOME=/home/sebastiaan
>     LANG (unset)
>     LANGUAGE (unset)
>     LC_ALL=POSIX
>     LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
>     LOGDIR (unset)
>     PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:.
>     PERL_BADLANG (unset)
>     SHELL=/bin/sh
> 
> 

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