kdeinit4's process name

[John Tapsell]

2009/1/19 David Faure <faure at kde.org>:
> On Monday 19 January 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   kinit sets its cmdline to "kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running... kdeinit4 --suicide".
>>
>>   For purely aesthetic reasons, can we make this a bit nicer?
>> gnome-system-terminal, htop and (as of today) use the cmdline for the
>> process Name column.  This results in the process name being
>> "kdeinit4:" in the process list.
>
> Sounds like a bug, add debug output in kdelibs/kinit/proctitle.cpp to find out more.

Yeah I did play about with that.  I got confused because I also got
just  "kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running..."   when launching kdeinit4
manually.

What do we want it to end up saying?  How about just simply "kdeinit4
[args]"?   Is there a particular reason for the whole "Running..."
thing?

John

> Here I get
>   kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running...
> when I do
>  ps awwlx | grep Running
>
> The --suicide tells me this is when running a KDE application out of
> a KDE session... Do you get the same for the real kdeinit4 in a kde session?


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