On Thu, 6 May 1999, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> How to explain that process with PID 701 which shown in ps output
> as (postmaster) after some time becomes looks as usual postgres
Because 'postmaster' is written in the kernel task_struct, whereas the
task's argv[] says 'postgres'.
The only way to get around this is to do an execv(), at which point the
kernel will recopy argv[0].
Taral