Re: [HACKERS] removing the exec() from doexec()

>
>
> sure enough..  well, try this on your OS and you can find out if perl
> knows how to change it.  it doesn't work under solaris.  the args to
> ps might be different for your system.
>
> perl -e '$0 = "it_works!";system "ps -p $$"'
>
> However, the args to the processes are so different that it seems easy
> to tell the difference..  if you're a human.  computers might have
> more trouble.  I've been known to use "killall postgres" (yes, I know,
> I'm bad!!)

The args don't change on a fork() either.  The only way is to look at
the parent of all the postgres children.


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