A Ruby module to customize the process name

The sys-proc module allows a process to change its name, as displayed by system tools such as ps and top. It SHOULD allow (too), depending on system support, to kill the renamed process by name, using killall. The procedure is hardly portable across different systems. At the moment, this module is fully compatible with GNU/Linux (using prctl). Freebsd is partially supported, using setprogname and getprogname (provided by the BSD libc).

This module provides the necessary architecture to, potentially, support even more systems.

sudo gem install sys-proc

alternatively, install a development version (from github):

git clone https://github.com/SwagDevOps/sys-proc sys-proc
cd !$
bundle install --path vendor/bundle
rake gem:install

require 'sys/proc'

Sys::Proc.progname = :awesome

Some inspiration taken from:

• BSD::setproctitle - Perl interface to BSD's setprogname(3) and setproctitle(3)
  • setprogname(3) - FreeBSD Library Functions Manual
  • setproctitle(3) - FreeBSD Library Functions Manual
• djberg96/sys-proctable
• A Python module to customize the process title