Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow setting qemu process name

[Avi Kivity]

On 07/01/2009 05:06 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:57:47AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> >      
> > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:29:22AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > >
> > > It's only default with -name. I don't think anyone would look through
> > > /proc matching for process names, that would be too broken anyways.
> > > If they look through ps ax they would still work.
> > >
> > >        
> > If someone has a script today that uses top -n 1 | grep
> > qemu-system-x86_64 that script will break.
> >      
>
> That would already break if qemu-system-x86_64 is by chance not in
> the ~20 or so processes that take the most CPU time. That is what I meant
> with already broken. I consider it very likely that the scripts
> all use ps at least, which is not affected.
>    

I often use 'pkill qemu', but no idea which process name that looks at.

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