[coyotos-dev] Binary naming

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 10/04/2008, at 15.45, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 21:27 +0200, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
>>  A small set of tools might want to read the process name (process
>status,
>> various system monitors).
>
>No. First, there is no amount of storage that we can put into the
>process state that solves this problem. Second, it is up to the process
>to disclose (or fail to disclose) its name.

I don't understand the first, can you expand?
A process that discloses info can be monitored.

>
>This is a bring-up convenience only.
>
>It isn't clear that any equivalent to the process status command should
>even *exist* in Coyotos. One user has no intrinsic right to examine the
>processes of another, or even to examine the process substructure of
>their own applications!

Isn't it necesssary for debuggin programs?

>
>
>shap
>
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