SPUG: assigning to $0; different Linuces

[Ben Reser]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:03:20PM -0700, Jeremy G Kahn wrote:
> But when I run the same thing on redhat 7.3 (kernel 2.4, perl version 
> 5.8.0 for i686-linux) I get these results:

[snip]

> Notice that the name of process 14104 does *not* change.
> 
> 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?

After some testing I can replicate this on 5.8.0 on Mandrake 9.1/ppc.
My version of 5.8.1 RC4 on another machine Mandrake 9.2(cooker) works
fine.  So it looks like it is a perl bug in 5.8.0 that has been fixed in
5.8.1.

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