Rename the process back to wine on 2.6 kernels

Boaz Harrosh boaz at hishome.net
Sun Mar 27 10:09:59 CST 2005


Mike Hearn wrote:

>This makes us appear as "wine" again on 2.6 kernels, instead of appearing as
>/usr/bin/wine-preloader. It works in ps, top, and killall which are the most
>important. On kernels that don't support it, we will still appear as
>wine-preloader though.
>
>If this patch is accepted I might do another to move the [pk]thread switch
>into an env var instead of the command line. Then we'd be back to
>"wine foobar.exe" just like the good old days ;)
>  
>
A "not so far" back, there was a patch that enabled embedding of the 
wineloader into the Winelib stub of a Winelib application. (That would 
than load itself). How would that patch affect these applications?

Free Life
Boaz




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