SPUG: assigning to $0; different Linuces

[Ben Reser]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:03:20PM -0700, Jeremy G Kahn wrote:
> Has anybody else discovered that the ability to assign with $0 varies 
> across even Linux versions?

[snip]

> This is really irritating, since the assign-to-$0 is a nice feature, 
> when you're doing lots of fork-ing and exec-ing.  Does anybody know how 
> one would check that a system can do this from within a script? Or a 
> configuration variable in Linux that somebody might be able to tune?

IIRC there are two different procps distributions.  Likely the
difference is that Debian is using a different one than RedHat.  

You might also compare the content of the various "files" in /proc/$$/
Where $$ = your pid

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